Quotes About Anonymity

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

For one month, Evan Ratliff shed his identity and tried to disappear.

Anonymity, he thought, is seductive.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody

it was new, what he saw on the Internet, the cool statements of superiority so deeply believed in, that anyone not white should, as one person had written, "be exterminated as easily as we do rats." Gerry didn't share with his wife the things he read. "Cowards," he did say. "You can be anonymous, that's what's the trouble with the Internet." Each night now Gerry took a sleeping pill.

I have always thought that if there was a big corkboard and on that board was a pin for every person who ever lived, there would be no pin for me. I feel invisible is what I mean.

The room was rather anonymous, with fashionable upholstered Sheraton chairs in a salmon-colored stripe and studded wood, salmon-colored swags on the windows, and cream silk on the walls. Nothing personal marred the room, as though the house's inhabitants had ordered the furnishing to be as elegant yet innocuous as possible.

Los secretos de la felicidad se ocultan en las cosas simples y anónimas.

I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people.

The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the evidence justifying it was clear and sound. In the absence of any such finding, it has reached the conclusion that the proposal does not stand on its merits.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.

You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.

Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.