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Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and Ã¼ber-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director. -- Deborah Smith
Pop music will never be low brow. -- Lady Gaga
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. -- Frederick Leboyer
They may be a little more high brow than we are. -- David Talbot
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. -- Victor Hugo
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. -- Herman Melville
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Philip Stanhope
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. -- Franz Grillparzer
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. -- Ethel Waters
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. -- John Millington Synge
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. -- Johann Ludwig Tieck
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. -- Joseph Addison
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.' -- Ken Follett
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home! -- Ezra Taft Benson
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. -- Ezra Taft Benson
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children! -- William Morris Hunt
Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates. -- David Beckham
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. -- Louis Auchincloss
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. -- Daniel Boone
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. -- Lord Byron
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. -- Ovid
During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions. -- Matthew Stewart
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee. -- Charles Wolfe
It's kind of low brow, but the show 'Bob's Burgers' is hilarious, and being from the Midwest, I can kind of relate to a lot of the jokes. 'Orange is The New Black' is a Netflix Exclusive, I think - that's really funny. -- Gracie Gold
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world. -- Josephine Baker
Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits. -- Jean Racine
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. -- Robert Browning
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow. -- Horace
Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder. -- Lewis Carroll
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor. -- Robert Benchley
Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. -- John Keats
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. -- St. Jerome
Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface. -- Bhartrhari
Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history -- Gregory Maguire
Keep your brow game on point and always pack a lip gloss. -- Tinashe
Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. -- A. P. Herbert
I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things. -- Sigourney Weaver
Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low. -- John Masefield
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. -- William H. Gass
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Philip Stanhope
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Philip Stanhope
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. -- Ian McHarg
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow. -- William Shakespeare
down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms -- Homer
If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that. -- Kesha
The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class -- Jennifer Crusie
Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day. -- John Milton
You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know? -- Rumi
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it. -- Victor Hugo
There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow. -- Abraham Lincoln
The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song. -- Bradley Sands
The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it. -- Gautama Buddha
I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I'm a minimalist at heart. -- Ariana Madix
A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. -- Charlotte Bronte
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus , a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed. -- Camille Paglia
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. -- Joseph Brodsky
I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow. -- R. S. Thomas
I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking. -- Red Tash
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow! -- Abu Yahya al-Libi
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? -- Pietro Metastasio
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow. -- Ovid
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see! -- Edward Young
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. -- Josh Billings
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same. -- P. G. Wodehouse
O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first? -- Harry Graham
On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate. -- David Clement-Davies
All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. -- Matthew Arnold
Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties? -- Brad Meltzer
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. -- Alan Watts
I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped-as it is when you've been shot across the chest. -- Anthony Head
The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place. -- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. -- John Keats
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink. -- John Muir
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. -- William Jennings Bryan
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely
The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning. -- James Whistler
Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow -- Jackson Browne
Cam was already on his feet, waiting for me. I arched my brow at him. "Following me?" "Like a true serial killer," he replied. -- J. Lynn
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? -- William Shakespeare
Hold high the brow serene, O youth, where now you stand; Let the bright sheen Of your grace be seen, Fair hope of my fatherland! -- Jose Rizal
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her." -- John Millington Synge
Are you sure? A brow arched upBecause I'm here at your service and taking your jeans off is something I feel I'd be exceptionally wonderful at. -- J. Lynn
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield. -- Tammara Webber
T'was Spring, t'was Summer, all was gay Now Autumn bears a cloud brow The flowers of Spring are swept way And Summer fruits desert the bough -- Thomas Gray
Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It's a groundling thing. -- Martha Wells
The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter. -- Peter York
A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles Autumn's brow. -- James Grahame
Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow. -- St. Vincent
Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.... -- George R. R. Martin
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless. -- Wilferd Peterson
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. -- Robert Breault
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. -- William Cowper
Are you sure?" A brow arched up. "Because I'm here at your service and taking your jeans off is something I feel I'd be exceptionally wonderful at. -- J. Lynn
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice. -- Robert Breault
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn. -- Friedrich Schiller
Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate. -- John C. Bogle
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. -- William Shakespeare
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. -- Johann Ludwig Tieck
A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow. -- Bryan Procter
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died. -- Thomas Love Peacock
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation. -- Ronald Reagan
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? -- George Balanchine
Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss. -- Twyla Tharp
Don't. Don't play that game." His brow pressed to hers. "When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die. -- Tessa Dare
A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old. -- Thomas Kibble Hervey
Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.' -- Chris Evans
He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more -- David Thewlis
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef. -- Ken Follett
I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth. -- Nora Roberts
If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips. -- Ann Voskamp
Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium. -- Corey Stoll
Sometimes... sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever. -- Melina Marchetta
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. -- Oscar Wilde
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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