Quotes About Anonymity

The Internet make it easy to be deceptive. The Internet makes it easy to be anonymous and to lie and to keep terrible, destructive secrets from your loved ones.

It was easy to be anonymous in emails—the best refuge of the technocoward.

He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

I wanted to begin a new life where I didn't know a soul.

Everything about the restaurant is anonymous and interchangeable. And almost every seat is filled.

People have lost track of me before.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

When you're wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don't know who you are. So I just wander around and, yeah, it's pretty awesome.

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Sometimes I get recognised and sometimes I don't. The bus drivers will sometimes stop to try and get a selfie at peak times with traffic all around you!

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.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little

Anonymity may be a powerful drug; it is as well we do not taste too much of it in our daily lives.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

The perfect killer has no identity.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Such men roamed the world acting, always anonymously, to procure the freedom of others, whether physical or metaphysical, emotional

Is somebody in there now?" "Yeah, a guy. Stormy Monday took it." "That's the name he uses?" "Yeah. People 'round here use a lot of different names, you know? They've left their other names behind." "Got it. Let's go talk to Stormy. I've got to look inside." "He's not a happy guy when you wake him up. They call him Stormy Monday but he's kind of a dick every single day.

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

If I call you playing my music, you'll be like, 'Oh, that's Gunna.' Even on a song you ain't heard, you're gonna know my voice for singing. But if I call you on the phone - 'What's up? Are we still doing the interview today?' - you're not gonna know who this is.