Highbrow Quotations

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.

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

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.

Based on the lyrics I think it's not as highbrow academic.

It didn't get the attention it really deserves, and it didn't get the respect it deserves, ... It was part of the highbrow attitude of higher education. That it is higher and everything else must be somehow below.

I think there's something very elegant about the way that Christophe is directing horror. And, his inspiration is, you know, coming from a very highbrow kind of level in art. So If you're into horror I would say this is the movie to watch because it's elegant horror.

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.

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.

Highbrow lowbrows. No - not even genuine highbrow lowbrows. Middlebrow highbrow lowbrows.

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