Wilum Pugmire Quotes & Sayings

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals. — John Simon

I want to know why a fire glows, and why flame dust kills. I want my children or theirs ... to know what makes this radio work, ... and someday this rocket. I want to know much-more than I can learn, no doubt; but if I can start my people learning for themselves ... — Hal Clement

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. — Nicolas Winding Refn

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic. — Aubrey Plaza

: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be. — Simone De Beauvoir