#anonymous

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anonymous #free-speech #identity #internet #trolling

Amazing, life-altering anonymous picture quotes on FaceBook: Are they created by graphic designers who steal quotes or don't bother to research the author, or are they original and just have exceptionally less ego than I do? Cos if I ever write something that brilliant it's gonna have flashing headlights. ↗

— Fierce Dolan

#ego #facebook #picture-quotes #design

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#poetry #woman #woman

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. ↗

— Michael Bay

#audience #critics #dark #done #four

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

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

#am #anonymous #day #feel #i

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#go #i #ideally #more #probably

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage. ↗

— Cass Canfield

#always #anonymous #any #author #center

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#because #blend #city #especially #feel

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #love #lovers #naming