Quotes About Anonymity

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any traffic on the road for over an hour, though, which was really the most important thing. We hadn't been followed. Sydney drove us to a building with a sign that read MOTEL. Apparently this town liked to stick to the basics when it came to names. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually just called TOWN.

Hey, how come you told those girls your name was Jet?" "Standard practice if you don't want chicks to find you later, Sage. Besides, I figured I was protecting our operation here." "Yeah, but why Jet? Why not . . . I don't know . . . Travis or John?" Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.

Nobody knows who they were or what they were doing, but they left a legacy. — This Is Spinal Tap

Para los demás, él no era más que un nombre y un apellido. Pero Nina Citrone lo había reconocido como persona, había visto en él una amabilidad cuya existencia él mismo desconocía.

Ted Kemp lived in a residential development six blocks west of the highway. The homes were small, set close, and identical, as if the developer's plan had been to cap the land with beige stucco, clay tile, and anonymity

What's the deal with the secret Santa thing?" "If I told you, it wouldna be a secret.

He'd always found it vaguely depressing, and yet it shouldn't have mattered that the world was full of people he'd never know when he'd removed himself so completely from the world anyway. This

not know or had scarcely heard of, like Ingrid Bergman or Marilyn Monroe.

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

True Philanthropist is selfless at heart, and doesn't let her/his left hand know what the right hand is doing; so that the noble act of giving remains an absolute secret. Self-promotion of charitable acts is against the true spirit of Philanthropy, in my view.

Anonymity amongst the wreckage of the earth. This is what I sought. And a good pair of boots for when it got cold.

Most people in New York City had started wearing masks, to keep the pollution out, but also to protect privacy.

mail drop as the return address.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

I'm a Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? There's a pair of us- don't tell!

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Yo no soy nadie, ¿y tú? ¿No eres nadie tampoco? Entonces somos dos, guarda el secreto. Ya sabes que podrían desterrarnos.

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

I am Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you—Nobody—Too?