Quotes About Faceless

#1. Fogged, bogged gates of Brume, barrier to my home; Timeless, faceless watchers loom, but I am allowed to roam.

Christina Mercer

#2. It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself - literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self - shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad in a bodysuit - leaping out of her, pulling the rest of her in its wake. Over the edge.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#4. What's wrong with Starbucks?"
"It's a big, faceless corporation." He raised a good-natured brow. "So far, they've let me keep my face.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

Mireille Enos

#6. I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.

Max Blumenthal

#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. Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot.

Emma Donoghue

#9. He felt oddly powerless, as if his entire life were in the fingers of two faceless players maneuvering pieces in the same patterns on some vast board in a game that, for all he knew, had lasted for eternity.

David Eddings

#10. It has always been the many faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation.

F. Sionil Jose

#11. The desire of Kenyans is manifest. They know too well that their invincible, invisible, nameless, faceless, yet omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent rulers are condemned to serve them for life!

Levi Cheruo Cheptora

#12. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

Tehmina Durrani

#13. Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.' Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all. (Tyrion Lannister)

George R R Martin

#14. I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

Rod Serling

#15. It wasn't that she expected to be known by all the bank's employees; it was just that she had been lovely once, and had never really believed that time would make her faceless.

Denis Johnson

#16. A faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Ronald Reagan

#17. Wouldn't it be easier keep your victim faceless?"
I shuddered. "Not a victim."
"What else do you call one hemmed in by fate?"
"Human," I said, bitterness creeping into my voice.
"What about guilt, then? Why open yourself to pain?"
"Guilt is what makes you accountable.

Roshani Chokshi

#18. Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Mira Nair

#19. Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

Christina Ricci

#20. Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

Dean Koontz

#21. I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the Tour du Silence, I left them. Where the faceless dead faced the sky, I left them there at the center of the world.

Rick Yancey

#22. He felt fine so he got up and tried to walk to his house, but something was holding him back. All around him he could see dark figures. They were faceless masses whose only recognizable features were arms and legs.

Cindy Parmiter

#23. We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.

Brandon Boyd

#24. With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

Anita Roddick

#25. We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

Simon Toyne

#26. Was our suffering of any consequence to their consciences? Did they see us as victims> Or were we simply nameless, faceless humans who were in their way?

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#27. There was a high scream from somewhere in Diane's house, and the sound of a mirror cracking. The refrigerator opened, and a carton of almond milk hit the floor as if it had been slapped off its shelf. (It had.) The faceless old woman who secretly lives in her home was on one of her rampages again.

Joseph Fink

#28. The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Pope Francis

#29. In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Natsuo Kirino

#30. The charismatic portrait of the modern leadership looks nothing like Fidel Castro. It is a faceless portrait that epitomizes the toughness of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela's charisma, and the most compassionate heart of Mother Theresa.

Anthony Obi Ogbo

#31. I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#32. Anonymous, faceless homicides, he decides, lack the thrill of human contact.

David Mitchell

#33. It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

Colleen Atwood

#34. It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

Jay Kay

#35. Fenway seats just over thirty-seven thousand, about the same number of people as have Huntington's in the United States. Thirty-seven thousand. It's a faceless number,

Lisa Genova

#36. I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.

Gary Reilly

#37. I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

Chris Bosh

#38. Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.

Ed Crane

#39. Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

George W. Bush

#40. Turn around. I am there, one ten-thousandth of an inch outside your range of vision. I am always there. I am the faceless thing you cannot name, the nameless thing you cannot face.

Rick Yancey

#41. You're a - you're a - "
Say it, boy. Demon of fire. Monster of smoke. Devil of sand and ash. Servant of Nardukha, Daughter of Ambadya, the Nameless, the Faceless, the Limitless. Slave of the Lamp. Jinni.
". . . a girl!" he finishes.

Jessica Khoury

#42. The bank had expanded its services in recent years to offer anonymous computer source code escrow services and faceless digitized backup.

Dan Brown

#43. Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless
and helpless
mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#44. A logoless company is a faceless man

David Airey

#45. Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.

Richard Branson

#46. People moved past us, faceless humans who trudged through their own tragedies every day. How was mine so different?

Stormy Smith

#47. The next time? Oh, my dear Eliza, you're not going to carry on with this, are you? The Faceless Ones had their chance. They returned and they were sent away again. It's time to move on. Time to take up another hobby, like crocheting, or serial killing.

Derek Landy

#48. It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.

Cheyenne McCray

#49. For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Alan Arkin

#50. I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

Sarah McLachlan

#51. But as soon as I closed my eyes, all I saw was Brennan and his faceless lover. And I knew that come tomorrow when I saw Brennan again, that would be all I saw.

Sloane Kennedy

#52. So many times, I tried to imagine how he would look like and always ended up believing he is no more than a faceless monster.

Refaat Alareer

#53. A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

Jason Flemyng

#54. How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Curt Weldon

#55. Were there always to be more damage, damage would be an aspect of perfection. We would all be angels, one-legged and faceless, seething with endless, hopeless praise. Bless Adonai for making us better than angels. Blessed is Adonai for making us human.

Adam Levin

#56. Sometimes I think that's all you need. A good man with a fishing tip, a wave. A woman once in a while. Some work to do that might mean something. A truck that runs, that some faceless bastard two hundred miles away can't turn off. It's not much, but plenty when you don't have any of it.

Peter Heller

#57. There was a vividly clear class distinction between tech guys and finance guys. The finance guys saw the tech guys as faceless help and were unable to think of them as anything else.

Michael Lewis

#58. Shoot faceless, white blobs. Roger that Menace, Gamma Kitten One over and out.

Alanea Alder

#59. There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world

Neil Gaiman

#60. And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

Sylvia Plath

#61. After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Patrick Rothfuss

#62. Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Robert Kiyosaki

#63. Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#64. Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.

Lynne Rossetto Kasper

#65. I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.

Lucy Punch

#66. She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.

Barbara Delinsky

#67. Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

Frank Prochaska

#68. It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.

Tom Clancy

#69. No,' she shouted. She shouted it over and over because she didn't know what she could do to change anything and at least shouting made her feel better. No one could hear except the house and the faceless old woman who secretly lives in it.

Joseph Fink

#70. My hope is that, factual or fabricated, every line in Tsarina leads to a single truth: that when you forget that those you disagree with are people, not just your faceless opposition, you don't end up proving who is right and who is wrong. You end up with a body count.

J. Nelle Patrick

#71. This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

Halle Berry

#72. Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

Russell Sherman

#73. The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in history rolls around again.

James Lee Burke

#74. I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

Dhani Harrison

#75. More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Dennis Prager

#76. Social media allows us to behave in ways that we are hardwired for in the first place - as humans. We can get frank recommendations from other humans instead of from faceless companies.

Francois Gossieaux

#77. I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#78. The faceless, sexless, raceless proletariat. The faceless, raceless, classless category of "all women". Both creations of white Western self-centeredness. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location.

Adrienne Rich

#79. I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.

J.D. Vance

#80. There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

Brian Van Reet

#81. FORBIDDEN BRIDES OF THE FACELESS SLAVES IN THE SECRET HOUSE OF THE NIGHT OF DREAD DESIRE

Neil Gaiman

#82. The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.

Lee Siegel

#83. His reflection in her big, owl eyes hung there, faceless. She stared through him, burned through him, cut through him. She was horrifying, electrifying. He couldn't escape her in his head, and soon the way she moved colorless, speechless, was like a nightmare he wanted to stay in forever.

Chelsie Shock

#84. I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

Pat Oliphant

#85. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Paul Stanley

#86. Democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

Anne Stevenson

#87. You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it's all in your head.

Robert Pattinson

#88. Cersei will send men after you, I have no doubt. You might do well to take another name." "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.

George R R Martin

#89. Emily wasn't supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the other nameless and faceless girls I'd hooked up with over the years.

Monica Alexander

#90. I did a pilot for Fox years ago called 'Faceless,' with Sean Bean. I always thought it was such a cool show because it was really raw. I thought we were pushing it. This was back at a time before there was the 'cable standard.'

Joe Carnahan

#91. Never spend so much time preparing to live, that you forget to actually live.

Ann Depres