Middlebrow Quotes

#1. There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Henry Fairlie

#2. Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

Armond White

#3. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Alex Pareene

#4. Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that.

Kris Saknussemm

#5. The middlebrow, I hate.

Leslie Fiedler

#6. 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

#7. A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.

Evan Osnos

#9. I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Kim Weston

#10. The moment a sinner trusts Jesus - he is fully forgiven.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause.

Ankita Singhal

#12. He loathed the cruelty and brutality of its leaders, who had "gained power more by bribery, backstabbing, toadyism, and favoritism than by knowledge and competence.

Tennent H. Bagley

#13. Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Pat Summitt

#14. Big data will never give you big ideas ... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

Margaret Heffernan

#15. They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

Norm MacDonald

#16. You always wait for tomorrow. But let me clue you in. Tomorrow was yesterday.

Penelope Douglas