Highbrow Quotes

#1. My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

David Lagercrantz

#2. Hey Highbrow. Next time remember to tuck and roll.

Naima Simone

#3. I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

Diablo Cody

#4. Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass - not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#5. A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Brander Matthews

#6. 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 myself a popular artist.

Maxfield Parrish

#7. A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

A.P. Herbert

#8. I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Dick Cavett

#9. When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.

Walter Isaacson

#10. I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

St. Vincent

#11. 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 than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

Adrian Edmondson

#12. If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

Walt Disney

#13. A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts.

Sarah Vowell

#14. We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning.

Sinclair Lewis

#15. 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 of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

Stella Gibbons

#16. A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

Edgar Wallace

#17. Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

James Wolcott

#18. Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.

Neil Farber

#19. Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.

A. J. Jacobs

#20. 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 at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Virginia Woolf

#21. I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

Gordon Getty

#22. No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.

Sophie Hannah

#23. I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

Phil Klay

#24. The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

David Lagercrantz

#25. In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you're laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funnier it is.

Henry Jackman

#26. [T]he piano was to Harlem what brass bands had been to New Orleans. The instrument represented conflicting possibilities -- a pathway for assimilating traditional highbrow culture, a calling card of lowbrow nightlife, a symbol of middle-class prosperity, or, quite simply, a means of making a living.

Ted Gioia

#27. 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 highbrow literature celebrity society.

Irvine Welsh

#28. I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

Timothy Dalton

#29. So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

Jasper Fforde

#30. What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#31. Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.

Sophie Hannah

#32. You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper

#33. Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

Sinclair Lewis

#34. Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the only magazines they subscribed to were 'The Atlantic' and 'The New Yorker,' broke down and got 'Life' magazine.

Sally Mann

#35. The highbrow/lowbrow schizophrenia of Twitter never stops amazing me. It's the Chris Farley of technologies.

Christian Rudder

#36. We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

David Lagercrantz