Words matter. These are the best Highbrow Quotes from famous people such as Melvyn Bragg, James Wolcott, Virginia Woolf, Michelle Dean, Adrian Edmondson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
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.
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.
Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it’s a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone’s garage.
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.
The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don’t care if I’m highbrow or not anymore.
Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.
The first two actors we cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Because we started so highbrow, we were able to get anyone. Plus, some of these people have children, and their kids love ‘X-Men.’ They’ll do it because of them – that’s our little extra ace in the hole.
I’m not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
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.
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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.
What’s great about teen fiction is that it’s all mixed up – there’s highbrow and lowbrow!
I don’t see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.
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.
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.
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I’m not.
