Ripe Quotes

250 Ripe quotes by 220 unique authors

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ditty of First Desire In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I wanted to be… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy… — Lilith Saintcrow
Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air… — John Flanagan
Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him. — Libba Bray
I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are wishing for it.… — Karen Marie Moning
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to… — Virginia Woolf
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if… — Tessa Dare
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for… — Stephen Levine
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see… — Victor Hugo
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… — Anne Lamott
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see',… — William Shakespeare
Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy — Maggie Stiefvater
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics… — Donna Tartt
My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you… — T.H. White
Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find… — Yehuda Berg
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands… — Phyllis McGinley
I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for… — Jane Hirshfield
An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal… — Harlan Coben
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all… — Lawrence Durrell
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long… — Jawaharlal Nehru
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins… — Andrei Tarkovsky

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