Rona Maynard > Rona's Quotes

“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.”
― E.B. White

“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”
― Gerard Manley Hopkins

“If I knew where the good songs were, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor, and that’s what I did in Blazing Saddles.”
― Mel Brooks

“Young love is about wanting to be happy. Old love is about wanting someone else to be happy”
― Mary Pipher

“A battle like this would be intolerable if we didn’t have a good time, if we didn’t have the joy of battle, if we didn’t have a high old time in this fight. Never, never underestimate the power of high hearts when they’re combined with principled, unyielding wills.”
― Jane Jacobs

“Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.”
― Carrie Fisher

“One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer’s and has forgotten we exist.”
― Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

“One day we are looking at the Magnum photograph of Sophia Loren at the Christian Dior show in Paris in 1968 and thinking yes, it could be me, I could wear that dress, I was in Paris that year; a blink of the eye later we are in one or another doctor's office being told what has already gone wrong, why we will never again wear the red suede sandals with the four-inch heels, never again wear the gold hoop earrings, the enameled beads, never now wear the dress Sophia Loren is wearing.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“It strikes me that the physical details of the dying body are as intimate and predictable as those of the body making love.”
― Abigail Thomas

“If you're an artist, your kids are bound to end up artists, too. To put it another way, once you're in the circus, it's hard to get out.”
― Martha Wainwright, Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

“Some things about being human can't be learned from your own kind..”
― Rona Maynard, Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World

“A dog is more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine”
― Rona Maynard, Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World

“A minute, fully lived, can feel like all the time in the world.”
― Rona Maynard, Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World