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Quotes About Anonymous

Doug cleared his throat and said, "Bonnie Raitt once told me coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat. Above all else they appeared wholly at venture, primal, provisional, devoid of order. Like beings provoked out of the absolute rock and set nameless and at no remove from their own loomings to wander ravenous and doomed and mute as gorgons shambling the brutal wastes of Gondwanaland in a time before nomenclature was and each was all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's just a coincidence, I guess, but just the day before at the dry cleaner's, one of our customers, Mrs. Chudy, said to me- I forget what we were even talking about, but she said, My dear, there are no coincidences. That's just God's way of remaining anonymous. And I was like, to myself not to her, yeah? How do you know? But hey, maybe she's right.
~ Wally Lamb
Franklin asserted his conservatism more forcefully. Most notable was an anonymous piece entitled "On the Laboring Poor," which he signed "Medius
~ Walter Isaacson
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.
~ Wendell Berry
It may seem a paradox, but it is none the less the simple truth, to say that on the contrary, the decisive historical events take place among us, the anonymous masses. The most powerful dictators, ministers and generals are powerless against the simultaneous mass decisions taken individually and almost unconsciously by the population at large.
~ Haffner, Sebastian (1907-1999)
A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.
~ Lemony Snicket
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
~ Jeff Daniels
Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.
~ Harry Browne
I wanted to learn how to blog, so I was playing around with Wordpress and Typepad and Blogger, starting all these different blogs just to learn how these things work. I had a fake Sergey Brin blog, an anonymous, fake Ph.D kind of blog. I did it for, like, I don't know, six weeks, and the Steve Jobs one just caught on.
~ Daniel Lyons
I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.
~ Ruth Reichl
The road to the Castle is paved with anonymous letters, deriving from the besetting Irish sin, jealousy.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
In the 1990s, Trump Tower was one of only two buildings in New York City to allow anonymous purchases of apartment units, an opportunity that the Russian mob quickly exploited.
~ Timothy Snyder
I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class.
~ Pat Conroy
The only other people who shared this piece of earned intelligence were my father, my brother, and those anonymous fishermen whose innocent footprints undermined the numinous rarity of my father's secret hermitage.
~ Pat Conroy
the bank had expanded its services in recent years to offer anonymous computer source code escrow services and faceless digitized backup.
~ Dan Brown
Everything I know about being a fashion model in the 21st Century I learned from Jenna Sauers' wonderful Jezebel memoir, "I Am The Anonymous Model." Meredith's modeling career is based on it. Available with a quick Google.
~ William Gibson
Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He's blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.
~ Brian Stelter
NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.
~ Moby
The first is that the individual forming part of a crowd acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint. He will be the less disposed to check himself from the consideration that, a crowd being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.
~ Unknown
I didn't fully appreciate the impact of what I helped create until 2016 happened. Very soon after that, I started working for The Guardian, originally as an anonymous source.
~ Christopher Wylie
Fortunately, this all happened in the alternative reality of Twitter, where such things are posted by anonymous accounts with anime avatars.
~ Dave Rubin