Vicariousness Quotes & Sayings

I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can. — Scott Ashjian

Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed. — Benjamin R. Barber

This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell. — Alexandre Dumas

Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee. — William Morris

I love Between shades of gray — Ruta Sepetys

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. — Maria Callas

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work. — Kiefer Sutherland

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting. — Radha Mitchell

I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights. — Frederick Lenz

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. — Ann Voskamp

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. — Blaise Pascal

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction — Jack Donovan

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like. — Laurence Sterne