Quotes About Anonymity

I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.

Anonymity breeds meanness.

My name is Brian and I am a troll. An internet troll.

One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.

I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood.

I miss that in the city you can walk outside your front door and there's people all around you. And they don't know a thing about you.You could be anyone.

Somos miles de milones, es excesivo. Nadie conoce a nadie. Llegan unos desconocidos y te violan, llegan unos desconocidos y te desgarran el corazón. Llegan unos desconocidos y se te llevan la sangre.

Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.

I am infatuated with the private life, and with anonymity; perhaps even invisibility.

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

I will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people,* and allows—no, enables*—them to say things that they'd never say to another person face-to-face.

will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people, and allows — no, enables — them to say things that they'd never say to another person face to face.

and what he knows and we know (Odysseus), the poet introduces an important theme that will continue to grow throughout his poem, which is: What is the difference between who we are and what others know about us? This tension between anonymity and identity will be a

pseudonymous.

I never wanted to be famous.

Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.

In the cybereconomy, they will never see you. The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color-blind anonymity on the new frontiers of cyberspace.

liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.

of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s.