Highbrow Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
— Diablo Cody
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A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
— Edgar Wallace
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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
— Adam Cooper
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I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered…
— Maxfield Parrish
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No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not…
— Margo Jefferson
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a…
— Irvine Welsh
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Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
— Brander Matthews
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I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
— St. Vincent
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I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
— Gordon Getty
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If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
— Walt Disney
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
— Jasper Fforde
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind…
— Virginia Woolf
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On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one…
— Stella Gibbons
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All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were…
— Michael Chabon
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
— Alan Patrick Herbert
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I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular…
— Adrian Edmondson
Who Wrote These Highbrow Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Highbrow Quotes as follows: