Anonymous Quotes

255 quotes by 224 authors

Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the… — Susan Orlean
The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous. — Natalie Portman
Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful. — Paula Radcliffe
I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own… — John C. Reilly
I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too. — Jerry Saltz
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity. — Sheryl Sandberg
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings… — Will Self
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success… — Charlie Sheen
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous. — Ben Stiller
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. — Virginia Woolf
I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a… — Evgeny Morozov
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems… — Evgeny Morozov
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have… — Lynda Resnick
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially… — Gregory Maguire
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. — James A. Baldwin
It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life… — Billy Collins
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to beâ€”or to be indistinguishable fromâ€”self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing… — Neal Stephenson
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regularsâ€”to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recordingâ€”all this… — Sylvia Plath

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