Vicariously Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.
— Kin Hubbard
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
— Elbert Hubbard
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I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.
— Amy Dickinson
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved…
— Gary Gygax
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully…
— Aldous Huxley
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If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what…
— Steven Pinker
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My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you…
— Christina Ricci
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I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
— Brooke Shields
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Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be…
— John Irving
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Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others
— Eric Berne
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Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they…
— Shane Claiborne
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But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and…
— Julio Cortazar
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That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop…
— Neil Gaiman
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for…
— Carson McCullers
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The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of…
— Richard Hornby
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Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to…
— Dwayne Johnson
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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
— Ally Condie
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
— Victoria Justice
Who Wrote These Vicariously Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 43 Vicariously Quotes, led by these top contributors: