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Quotes About Faceless

The availability of downloads is fantastic, but you don't know which musicians are playing on the songs anymore. It's kind of making musicians faceless, you don't get musical solos on records anymore. You know who the singer is but it's the poor old musicians who suffer.
~ Paul Young
It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man. His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.
~ Edith Pattou
Social media is a weird thing. People have their keyboard and no face... they can say whatever they want.
~ Christina Anstead
In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned.
~ H. W. Brands
Negotiation, Information Technology, and the Problem of the Faceless Other," in Leigh L. Thompson, editor, Negotiation Theory and Research (Psychology Press, 2006).
~ Roger Fisher
The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It's at the heart of the conservative critique of modern government: faceless bureaucrats writing incomprehensible regulations that complicate our lives for no good reason.
~ Jim Geraghty
For the first time since the escape Fahrenberg realized that he wasn't pursuing one single man whose features he knew, whose strength was exhaustible, but rather a faceless, inexhaustible, inestimable power. But he couldn't bear to think such a thought for longer than a few minutes.
~ Anna Seghers
Sometimes you can remember everything about an old friend, down to minor details about his behaviour, but for the life of you you can't picture his face.
~ ryu murakami
We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.
~ Brandon Boyd
It's damaging to build organizations around repetitive faceless work that brings no connection and no joy. As
~ Seth Godin
A particular modern problem is that megalomania, especially when it involves real estate development, is the disturbance of many faceless men. And a faceless man is a difficult enemy.
~ Michael Wolff
What if depression – reason's failure to achieve self-mastery – is not the failure of reason but instead the result of reason? What if human reason works "too well," and brings us to conclusions that are anathema to the existence of human beings? What we would have is a "cold rationalism," shoring up the anthropocentric conceits of the philosophical endeavor, showing us an anonymous, faceless world impervious to our hopes and desires.
~ Eugene Thacker
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
~ Paul Stanley
The days that marked the war went on like the ticking of a clock that had no face and showed no time.
~ Beryl Markham
And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.
~ Sylvia Plath
He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
~ T.S. Eliot
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
~ Natsuo Kirino
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
You can't socialise without being faceless idiots. More people have Facebook friends than actual friends these days.
~ Roman Reigns
What contemporary society needs is essentially abstract human relationships, so that even faceless people like me can earn their wages with no interference.
~ Kobo Abe
I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror. All this I dreamt, and more.
~ George R.R. Martin
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
~ George W. Bush
Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.
~ Aunjanue Ellis
the bank had expanded its services in recent years to offer anonymous computer source code escrow services and faceless digitized backup.
~ Dan Brown