Quotes About Anonymity

I have been to the States many times. What I enjoy most is the feeling of being undercover, that no one recognizes me. When I go to the airport almost anywhere in Europe or Africa, I am recognized.

The important thing is to make something. In reality, it's not important that a designer be known by name - you can remain anonymous. Even the status of a designer will undergo changes, I believe.

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

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

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

I didn't really grow up in the spotlight.

It is so easy to sit behind a screen and create an account that spreads hate.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

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.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

Let me put it this way, I lived in L.A. for 10 years and did not know my neighbors.

I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I never knew their names. They didn't know what I did for a living, and they didn't know my name.

People feel they can say nasty things and have anonymity behind the net - as they did with all the nasty comments about me - without fear of recrimination.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

People love to make comments to me on Twitter or social media networks, and I say it's easy for you to make a comment because you're behind a screen where nobody can ever see you.

Eventually, people have to realize I'm not different than the person next door, except that more people know my name.

The nice thing about being on the Internet is that you're not as recognisable as someone that's been on TV.