Middlebrow Culture Quotes

#1. 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Some days are good, and some days are bad, and some days are the days you get a dead dog in the mail. They can't all be winners.

Jenny Lawson

#3. Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

Sun Tzu

#4. ...but I desire i may no further be harassed, and i recommend it to you to retire to your chamber, and to endeavour to adopt a more retional conduct, than that yielding to fancies, and to a sensibility, which, to call it by the gentlest name, is only a weakness.

Ann Radcliffe

#5. When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Walter Annenberg

#6. The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

John Warnock

#7. Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas - but not zombies.

Mercedes Lackey

#9. The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society.

M.C. Mary Kom

#10. You always blush when you lie."
"I do not." I felt the flush spread down my neck.
"If you keep lying, I think I will have to leave," he threatened halfheartedly. "I don't feel like my virtue is safe."
"You're virtue?" I huffed. "Whatever."
"I know how you get." His eyes closed.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. Miss Andrews is really nice

Nicholas Sparks

#12. Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

Andrei Platonov

#13. If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Aesop

#14. We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Ben Stein

#15. Since 1960s pop art the art world has been happy for artists to use the lowbrow to add zest and authenticity to their works. But middlebrow has resonances of the suburban bourgeousie who might see art as aspirational by association.

Grayson Perry