"Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or…" — Russell Smith

"Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain."

— Russell Smith

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39 Quotes by Russell Smith

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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is…
I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who…
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…

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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just… — Rowan Atkinson
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it… — Saint Augustine
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never… — Stanley Baldwin
Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against… — Mario Balotelli
I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile… — Drew Barrymore
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be… — Jacques Barzun
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by… — Martha Beck
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or… — Michael Behe
And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.… — Lewis Black
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's… — Lewis Black
I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to… — Lewis Black
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it… — Bobby Bowden

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