Ripe Quotes

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.