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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.
C. V. Raman
Science
People
Mother
Will
Become
Otherwise
All People
Must
Highbrow
Participate
Mother Tongue
Which
Teach
Activity
Tongue
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.
Wendell Pierce
Good
People
Sometimes
School
Every
Good Material
Out
Only
Highbrow
Stuff
Genre
Learned
Material
Coming
Very
Quickly
Wanted
Theater
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
Jasper Fforde
Comedy
Humor
Say
Highbrow
Comedy Shows
Mix
Mixture
Theater
Interesting
Shows
I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
Diablo Cody
Small
Highbrow
Edgy
Always
Person
Quirky
Loved
Movies
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Irvine Welsh
Sad
Society
London
Similar
Highbrow
Attempt
Stuff
Edinburgh
Celebrity
Happening
Literature
Create
Now
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.
James Wolcott
Love
Fans
Black
Finish Line
First
Nothing
Way
Those
Kind
Horror
Finish
Only
Highbrow
Know
Look
Ballet
Line
Itself
Different
Movie
Swan
Little
Different Kind
Us
Who
Whom
Slashing
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
A. P. Herbert
Kind
Highbrow
Picasso
Looks
Person
Who
Thinks
Sausage
Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
Melvyn Bragg
Music
Else
Everything
Once
Everything Else
Classical
Classical Music
Highbrow
Opera
Ballet
Were
Arts
Deemed
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.
Sophie Hannah
Good
Writing
Important
Type
Relationships
Say
Would
Would-Be
About
Highbrow
She
Austen
Moby
Moby Dick
Whale
Just
Romantic
Literary
Jane
Jane Austen
Ever
I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.
David Slade
Myself
See
More
Highbrow
Particularly
Am
Much
Populist
What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Great
Teen
About
Highbrow
Mixed
Up
Fiction
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.
David Lagercrantz
Writing
Father
Long
Dante
Memoirs
Highbrow
Stuff
Like
Sort
Sportsman
Low
Lowest
Biographies