Suzette Haden Elgin Quotes

“You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.”

“...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.”

“Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him when he strode into the saloon later, threw The Origin of Species on the table and announced:"It’s very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop."I couldn’t believe my ears, and him a church-goer, too. "Well, my lord, I dunno,” says I. "Tientsin ain’t much of a place, but I’ll see what I can drum up —""Michel’s been reading Doctor Thorne since Taku," cried he. "He must have finished it by now, surely! Ask him, Flashman, will you?" So I did, and had my ignorance, enlightened.”

“I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and dad for giving me all this music. I don't really sing this as a singer, because I'm not a singer. But I wanted to do it for them.”

“We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.”

“Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.”

“I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.”

“I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.”

“And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.”

“But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.”