Proxy Quotes

“Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.”

“Media is Munchausen by proxy.”

“Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.”

“He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.”

“Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.”

“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.”

“contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. ”

“A journey inward may end in defeatFor life as we know it was made by machines”

“He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?”