Vicarious Quotations

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

Part of it is what it's always been -- the vicarious thrill of seeing people who are much richer and more famous live lives that are wonderful, even if they are complete fakes. I think people simultaneously worship and despise celebrities.

All action is vicarious faith.

Earth is the laboratory for future discoveries on Mars. Without examining Earth's extreme environments, we wouldn't understand how processes worked to shape the landscape, chemistry and life at the limits. Without that understanding, we couldn't draw conclusions about how life can develop on other planets. By examining these windows to Mars, scientists step out of the vicarious and into real features on Earth that function similarly to those on Mars.

I've been a Mets fan since 1962. For every American boy who was never quite good enough, there is a little vicarious wanting you get by coming here and being close to major league players.

It's a vicarious thing. The difficult things I've done, I'm interested in figuring out how to do it.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.