Highbrow Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies. — Diablo Cody
A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. — Edgar Wallace
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. — Adam Cooper
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
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
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
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adÃ¨les, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. — Brander Matthews
I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow. — St. Vincent
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident. — Gordon Getty
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes. — Walt Disney
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix. — Jasper Fforde
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
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
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
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. — Alan Patrick Herbert
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

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