Top 100 Quotes About Anonymous
#1. You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
Questlove
#2. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. - Anonymous
David Allen
#3. I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.
Neil Gaiman
#4. That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
Walker Evans
#5. What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
Carol Ann Duffy
#6. In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
Banksy
#7. In a mask we are faceless and classless, ageless and anonymous. Masks reveal the primal urge to behave like the beast in rut that leaps on the stranger or waits in the penumbra to be leapt upon.
Chloe Thurlow
#8. I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
William S. Burroughs
#9. We really are All One ... this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
Bill Hicks
#10. All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
Heather Donahue
#11. Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.
Eric Schmidt
#12. Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous
Sue Ward Drake
#13. 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
#14. The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.
Colum McCann
#15. The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Lenny Bruce
#16. The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
John Perry Barlow
#17. It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
Cyndi Lauper
#18. Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
Paula Radcliffe
#19. One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.
John R. Allen
#21. The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.
Michael Swanwick
#22. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
Philip Zimbardo
#23. You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
Jeff Bezos
#24. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.
Khaled Hosseini
#25. Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
Neal Stephenson
#26. The problem with most Christians today is that they would rather be on the judgment seat than on the witness stand. Anonymous
Britt Merrick
#27. A Kitchen Prayer Thank God for dirty dishes, They have a tale to tell; While others may go hungry We're eating very well. With home, health, and happiness, I shouldn't want to fuss; By the stack of evidence, God's been very good to us! ~ Anonymous ~
Darlene Schacht
#28. What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say.
Anonymous
Mike Addington
#29. The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
Barbara Hepworth
#31. You are free to choose, but not free from the consequences of your choice." Anonymous
Janice Coy
#32. As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.
David Christian
#33. I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.
Jonathan Nolan
#34. I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
Larry David
#35. This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.
Conan O'Brien
#36. I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.
Pete Rose
#37. I live a pretty anonymous life.
Amos Lee
#38. School until the day a teacher, acting on an anonymous tip from a member of the student body, surprised the undercover couple in flagrante delicto in a broom
Junot Diaz
#39. For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we're able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us.
Glenn Greenwald
#40. In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China's young to change their nation. He didn't text message the tank or share a video on YouTube.
Tom Brokaw
#41. Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
Brene Brown
#42. There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened. - Anonymous
Philip Kotler
#43. I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?
Paula Poundstone
#44. The safest part of your journey is over. Now drive home safely. - ANONYMOUS PILOT
Kaiser Fung
#45. Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. Jesus, Shep. I told you ... "
"I know what you said. You have eighteen missed calls."
"All Trent?"
"One is from Panty Wearers Anonymous.
Jamie McGuire
#47. 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 anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
Susan Orlean
#48. At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.
Jeff VanderMeer
#49. Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.
Harry Browne
#50. Facebook is a CRM for people. The days of the anonymous web is over. People expect more.
Clara Shih
#51. A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'
Aimee Mullins
#52. No, not anonymous. Maybe she didn't matter enough to the Brauns, certainly not enough to her mother and Uncle Dolf, and definitely not at all to Reinhard. But she mattered to herself. And that was all that needed to be true. She would figure something out
Anne Blankman
#53. I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.
Tom Lehrer
#54. Shut up, already. Just once, could I get a demon with no vocal cords? (Anonymous) At least they're not puking on us this time. (Wynter) Small favor that. (Anonymous)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. I'm learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn't observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you're calling it a cunt, biting its tongue and waiting.
Caitlin Moran
#56. Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well.
A.J. Liebling
#57. But the internet, with its army of anonymous hatemongers, still tried to keep the absurd story alive.
Barkha Dutt
#58. Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#59. I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?
Elizabeth Berg
#60. Everyone at Bellingham would know me, know who I was, by dinner. Would they consider me the hero or the fuckup? All I had wanted was to be anonymous.
Amber Dermont
#62. It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority of individuals experience as a vast anonymous power, which, without any democratic public control, regulates their lives.
Slavoj Zizek
#63. 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 personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.
John C. Reilly
#64. Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.
Sarah Palin
#65. Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
Sheryl Sandberg
#66. What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.
Zachary Cole Smith
#68. This is the idea that has made me ... an anonymous figure in America ... If you have children here tonight ... they are NOT special.
Bill Hicks
#69. There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.
Dolly Wells
#70. You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
Jeff Daniels
#71. President Obama said in an interview over the weekend that he really misses being anonymous. He said, 'I miss Saturday mornings rolling out of bed and not shaving, going to the market ... ' Be careful what you wish for, 2012 is just around the corner!
Jay Leno
#72. You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?
Richard Greenberg
#73. What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration ... That's led to this discussion that's completely raw, completely unfiltered.
Christopher Poole
#74. Franklin asserted his conservatism more forcefully. Most notable was an anonymous piece entitled "On the Laboring Poor," which he signed "Medius,
Walter Isaacson
#75. I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.
Bobby Darin
#76. There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.
Maggie Stiefvater
#77. when they put unknown at the end of a quote, that means they probably don't no how to spell anonymous" -unknown
Tri T. Ha
#78. Even in these days of eBay and superencrypted anonymous purchasing over the Internet, the safest way to buy stolen stuff is to meet a total stranger and hand over a wedge of untraceable cash. They don't know you, you don't know them - the only problem is where to meet.
Ben Aaronovitch
#79. Artificial intelligence is no match
for natural stupidity - Anonymous
Iain Clements
#80. Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
Robert Menzies
#81. Taxis are useful in this town, aren't they?" Clayton mused. "So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same.
Peter F. Hamilton
#82. Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible.
Wil S. Hylton
#83. Raccoons don't need to do poppers in order to come while they're having anonymous same-sex interludes in a highway rest area.
Doug Stanhope
#84. In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.
Colum McCann
#85. My name is Kevin James Breaux and I am an author. Why does that always sound like I am introducing myself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting?
Kevin James Breaux
#86. 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
#87. 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.
Judith Martin
#88. Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.
Bill Maher
#89. I think its better to do whatever is going to make you feel the most peaceful and happy. - Shoe Addicts Anonymous
Beth Harbison
#90. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
Charles Handy
#91. I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#92. Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous
Stephen Covey
#93. 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 rate is 100 percent.
Charlie Sheen
#94. Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.
Pete Seeger
#95. At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.
Donald L. Hicks
#96. Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. He didn't know the difference between the two, but this was more conveniently located, and anyway love wasn't his addiction.
Drew Nellins Smith
#97. She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
Alice Sebold
#98. I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
Penelope Cruz
#100. I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.
Romesh Gunesekera
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