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Quotes About Intrusive

I listen to WTF with Marc Maron, although I'm getting annoyed with him, he's a bit too intrusive and fawning. But he's done some great interviews in the past, like with David Simon, the writer of The Wire, and Bruce Springsteen. He gets fantastic guests. I just wish he let them talk more.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
~ David Harsanyi
Your voice still beating inside my skull, as if I could put my fingers through my eyes and pull you out. This dumb external universe.
~ Ruth Stone
And then the most evil idea came to me. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan in the world and that Satan had come crawling along the stone floor towards me and put the idea in my mind.
~ Anne Rice
an intrusive government of the politically self-righteous
~ Shelley Singer
He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.
~ Steven Morrissey
trying to peddle its pots and pans at the door of this house.
~ Elizabeth Knox
I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.
~ Kylie Minogue
Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling.
~ Dianna Agron
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
~ Frank Rich
Why, that means you're just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.'
~ Sara Sheridan
God's reality is overwhelmingly intrusive in all the details of life.
~ John Piper
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
~ Audrey Tautou
I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.'
~ Glen Mazzara
But it's there. Just because I haven't told anyone doesn't mean it isn't there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can't get out of your head.
~ Meg Cabot
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping
~ Michael Hutchence
I was left alone with my thoughts, a bunch of unwelcome houseguests who refused to leave.
~ Jojo Moyes
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
~ Octavio Paz
Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.
~ Sharon Creech
Anxiety does not ask your permission. Anxiety does not come when expected. It's very rude. It barges in at the strangest moments, stopping all activity, focusing everything on itself It sucks the air our of your lungs and scrambles the world.
~ Maureen Johnson
I write what I want to write, and then, when it's finished, I use my judgment to see whether or not I think it's intrusive. If it is problematic, then I ask those involved. I won't necessarily do what they say. But I do consult. I haven't had too many problems. Nobody's really gotten angry at me. Nobody, as far as I know, has felt betrayed.
~ John Edgar Wideman
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
~ H.L. Mencken
There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.
~ Harlan Coben
OCD is an anxiety disorder, one that brings conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions - 'Touch the bannister. Pick up that rock. You'd better do it, or something terrible will happen.'
~ Tim Howard