23 Vicariously Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Nation Our Virtuous Worst Able More Cheat Wishes Attractions Bully Person Vicariously Fulfills Profoundly

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 agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. Gary Gygax

Character You Game Experience Yourself Losing Value Whatever Wild Else Secret Wild West Those Rather Winning Involved Genre Sort West Get Vicariously Whether Fantasy Agents Things Imagining

Some of the greatest stuff that I watch, that I'm drawn to, is deeply flawed human beings, because they're representing a part of us that might not be all of us but the part we're most afraid to look at, and so we get to vicariously experience it through this character. Amy Landecker

Character Experience Drawn Some Through Part Stuff Look Most Because Greatest Get Human Representing Afraid Vicariously Human Beings Flawed Might Us Beings Deeply Watch

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff. Bobcat Goldthwait

Live Through Stuff Audience Vicariously Fan Really Letting

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

Mom Me Mother Once Several Dream Would Through She Occasions Said Done Getting Different Vicariously Wanted Her Things

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 Out Through Feel Come Like She Course Because Up Maybe Vicariously Story Much Grown Grown-Up Grows

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor. James Badge Dale

Live Way Characters Through Weird Weird Way Vicariously Actor Play

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

He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo. John Fusco

Kid Through He Him Felt Always Italian Decent Vicariously Polo China Connection Fascination Lived Traveling Travels

I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously. Kate Christensen

Writing Envy Stage Pedestrian Pants Kicks Rather Computer Had Occupation Around Tame Rock Always Leather Rock Star Huge Than Get Sitting Done Front Vicariously Unfortunately While Sweaty Star Pajamas

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 People Ride Looking Living Imagination Way Out Record Physically He Alongside Beautiful Thing Intellectually Going Just Vicariously Breaking Fantastic Mile Vigorous Moments Lives Thing Here

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them. Mary Szybist

People Shopping Style Sense Thinking Our Our Lives Out TV TV Shows About Variety Shape Shapes Part Houses Within Affects Wonder Unfold Vicariously Spaces Them Appeal Shows Popularity Lives Playing Chance Imagine Recently

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives. Natalie Massenet

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

Would Someone Only Liked Still Where Vicariously Anything Place Who

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ. Sugar Ray Leonard

Me People Problem Try Feeling Nothing Live Other One-On-One Through Primal Like Accepting Being Vicariously Fighters Compares Champ

I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it. Todd Haynes

Time Eyes Finished First Saw Hoping Through Never Never Forget Performance Cate Blanchett Liked She Because First Time Fresh Forget Sitting Vicariously Experiencing Next Film Her Watching

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

Mom Me Live Through Trying Vicariously

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