Quotes About Intrusion

I didn't like the thought of being watched all the time.

Ordinarily, when the great oak doors groaned open and someone entered Prat Library there would be a burst of sunlight, a bright harsh intrusion on the dim and quiet. But when Oriana Jeffers came through the doors, the light transmuted into moonbeams and star-shimmer, and all the books on the shelves fluttered awake. Oh joy, they whispered, a READER.

The first hands he heard banging at the outside walls felt like nails pushing into his temples. Then there were more hands. Pounding. Punching. Scratching. Then kicks and shrieking that even drowned out the sound of the rain. The worst was when Ham could make out individual voices. He could hear their neighbor Zebeleh and her little daughter Ariel

That's the way it is with most people: Details are an intrusion. Then there's the rest of us, lying in bed at three a.m., scrolling through volumes of mental small print.

Newton screamed when he felt them begin to crawl over his scrotum and try to wiggle between his buttocks

And they don't know what kind of raw, unfiltered hell they'd be stepping into if they try to break in here." Lindsey

Big Brother really is everywhere.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --' Hugh: 'Pained?

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

We are trespassing on your hospitality

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Affective reactions resulting from fascination are dangerous; they amount to an invasion by the unconscious.

A menacing snarl came from Frostfur. "What are you doing here?

He felt as if he was being patted all over by someone searching for something hidden on his person. He

Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

We don't need any more regulation from government. You don't need overarching moralism to tell you how to live because human beings actually have a pretty well-developed moral center. The more government intrudes on the basic decisions you make, the further away you get from your natural morality.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

I've had fans break into my hotel rooms.

People definitely wait outside my house, hotel, apartment, whatever, asking for hugs or autographs.

Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she'd stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city.

Reporters are like vampires, Curry likes to say. They can't come into your home without your invitation, but once they're there, you won't get them out till they've sucked you dry.

The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.