Concealing Identity Quotes

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

Sometimes I hid my family connections.

Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing is sure - any man who covers his face and packs a gun is a legitimate target for any decent citizen.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja at Waco. ... I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as "ninja" ... Let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing. A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic. It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the 'integrity that comes from being what you are.

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.