#vicar

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#class #curate #five #i #kent

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

— Richard Powers

#liked #only #place #someone #still

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. ↗

— Mother Jones

#career #cross #early #i #labor

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#great #relief #vicariously #worst

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#contest #end #good #judge #justice

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#being #gentler #go #god #god help

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#adventure #audience #hollywood #movement #movies

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #identity #independence #living-vicariously #self-discovery

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

#allowed #angry #even #gave #happy

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

— Michael Aspel

#collect #i #moment #nice #only