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Quotes About Anonymous

I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
~ Sam Shepard
I was groped by a producer at a party a couple years ago, after which I made an anonymous complaint to HR. As far as I know he was never personally disciplined.
~ Megan Ganz
Thomas Paine, who had arrived in Philadelphia two years earlier, provided Hamilton with a perfect model when he anonymously published Common Sense. The onetime corset maker and excise officer issued a resounding call for American independence that sold a stupendous 120,000 copies by year's end.
~ Ron Chernow
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
~ Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.
~ Albert Einstein
We (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the — in any case erroneous — comments of your anonymous expert.
~ Albert Einstein
the industrial ideal: anyone can request work, do so anonymously, never meet the employee, and reject the results without ever paying. The
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
~ William Ralph Inge
Her jaw ached with tension. "Surely you don't respond to all women who...invite you this way?" "Only strangers who remain anonymous and shrouded from my sight." The snap was still there, astonishing her. Anger was the last reaction she'd expected. "Do you intend to wear your veils when you fuck me, madam?
~ Anna Campbell
My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me.
~ Teri Garr
I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn't have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer by not competing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Within an office, it's important to create opportunities for anonymous feedback.
~ Neil Blumenthal
There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
~ Louis Stokes
Whoever the Bastard was, He wanted to remained anonymous while scaring the Tar out of Her.
~ Lisa Jackson ~ Absolute Fear
Dean Bloch introduces the article he writes against me in No. 94 of this newspaper by referring to another article written against me earlier in the same paper by an anonymous author, whose article Dean Bloch (an obsequious Basil) recognizes appreciatively in the strongest and most deferential terms as what might be called a leading article. And there is something in that, for it leads astray
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It turned out that somebody had reported a suspicious person on the beach, remember when they used to come in fishing-boats, the illegals, and thanks to that anonymous telephone call there were now fifty-seven uniformed constables combing the beach, their flashlights swinging crazily in the dark, constables from as far away as Hastings Eastbourne Bexhill-upon-Sea, even a deputation from Brighton because nobody wanted to miss the fun, the thrill of the chase.
~ Salman Rushdie
She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
~ Alice Sebold
That's what war does. Strips people and places of their identities and turns them into enemies in a line, positions to be taken, resources to be foraged. Anonymous things that can be carelessly crushed, and stolen, and burned without guilt.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Foster's–Australian for beer.
~ Anonymous
The beer that made Milwaukee famous.
~ Anonymous
LS/MFT–Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.
~ Anonymous
"Shine, Shine, save poor me!I'll give you all the pussy a Shine can see."Shine says, "Now pussy's good, but pussy don't last—Shine's going to save his own black ass."And Shine swam on.
~ Anonymous
I think you're some kind of deviated prevert, and I think General Ripper found out about your preversion and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
~ Anonymous
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
~ Anonymous