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Quotes About Intrusion

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.
~ Mario Cantone
People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?
~ Mary Hart
Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages
~ Nick Clegg
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.
~ Eric Hoffer
She realized he looked more at home sitting at her desk than she did. How did he manage it? Somehow, he found a way to mark whatever space he occupied. He might as well lift his leg when he walked into a room.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Typical of those who didn't know how to deal with their own problems. They poked around in other people's troubles so they could feel better about themselves.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising.
~ Susan Glaspell
nasty things happen. That is, until the day Henry discovers the perfect hiding spot, where he discovers there are worse things than being found. Not being found. HARASSMENT DAY Edwin thought he was spending another lovely afternoon with his daughter and granddaughter. But dammit, they had followed him onto the train and they even had the audacity to get off at her station. Now they were on the platform. What could he possibly do to be rid of them? THE MONSTER RULES Harry had
~ Susan May
Fire is always hungry for things that don't belong to it.
~ Susan Meissner
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
~ Susan Orlean
people hack into the library to rehearse hacking into bigger, more secure, and more valuable targets.
~ Susan Orlean
To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. You take them off their path, away from their plans, from their everyday routine. Sometimes it's also forcing them to die.
~ Susana Fortes
I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day." Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
~ Gary Locke
As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.
~ Lady Gaga
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
~ Muriel Spark
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
~ Colin Wilson
Of course such advice is usually unsolicited.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of the misery they witnessed; and they felt that mere curiosity would not authorize a longer intrusion. So soon, therefore, as they had relieved, according to their power, the poverty that seemed to be the least evil of this cottage, they emerged into the open air.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
when it's officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it's not called spying. It's called surveillance.
~ Neal Shusterman
We've just inserted catheters into your carotid artery and jugular vein," says the nurse. "Right now your blood is being replaced with a synthetic oxygen-rich solution.
~ Neal Shusterman
Don't you see? They get into your head! That's where they live! Everything is a manipulation with them. They didn't hire you for your skills, Raj – they hired you because they know what I like – who I'd like! They probably have a database on all my boyfriends, and every kid I ever had a crush on growing up. And I'll bet they have one for you, too.
~ Neal Shusterman