Vicariously Quotes

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley

Great, Patriotism, Feeling

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 could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.
Christina Ricci

Life, Love, Movies

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
Joan Allen

Sad, Happy, Angry

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

Live, Through, Daughter

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 in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Gary Gygax

Experience, Yourself, Character

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
Victoria Justice

Mom, Live, Through

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Fiona Shaw

Great, Worst, Relief

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.
Laura Hillenbrand

Beautiful, Living, Here

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Buck Owens

Mother, Done, Different

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
Emmy Rossum

Character, Live, Through

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
Richard Powers

Someone, Place, Liked

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

Change, Beauty, Power

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.
Michael Aspel

Nice, Moment, Pieces

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
E. L. James

Love, Experience, Nice

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
Harry Reasoner

Good, Live, Journalist

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.
Joe Williams

Forget, Together, Two

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