The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.
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.
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.
Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving
Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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.
I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." [ ]
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.
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
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...
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
