Smith Introduced

Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or introduced:

    The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)