Lowbrows Quotes

#1. What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

Russell Lynes

#2. I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.

Harvey Pekar

#3. Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

Rose Macaulay

#4. Life's too short to settle for second best

Elle Casey

#5. Solving mysteries is as much about having an open mind as keeping your eyes open. Isn't it the same in science?

Menna Van Praag

#6. You should always play with and not according to the rules, because a life with no danger in it is no life at all.

Nancy Huston

#7. I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd ... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

Zachary Levi

#8. I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

Georges Bataille

#9. If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you.

Hugh Jackman

#10. The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

Bell Hooks

#11. Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Harriet Tubman

#12. I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

Phil Keoghan

#13. I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

Li Qingzhao

#14. Do you see the power of the rain?

Ursula Kay Vos