Quotes About Intrusion

Tiresias." He was often where he should not be, even where he could not be.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

They feel that fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

It would be easy to laugh this off were it not so obviously counterproductive. The idea that tackling climate change means accepting profound levels of intrusion into our everyday lives – and the economic disaster of dramatic drops in consumption and living standards – is an illusion that is actually shared by the Green left and the libertarian right.

Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.

And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even when wholly well intentioned, particularly when wholly well intentioned--is the source of all our troubles.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

Can I come in?No! I'm in a towel!I'm blind!

Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.

That you exist, is offense enough to arrest you.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

I surveyed 100 women and asked them what shampoo they used when showering, 98 of them said: How the hell did you get in here?

When I stare at the sky, I see you. When I stare out into the ocean, I see you. When I'm looking at the moon, I see you. Geez! Would you move aside, you're constantly getting in my way.

When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Human security had literally just noticed that something had tried to steal their client's head.

within easy unwanted talking range.

Desire is always linked to a story, and to a gap that needs to be filled: a yearning that intrudes, agitates and motivates human behavior both consciously and unconsciously.

If we had been left to our own devices we would have been all right. But, oh, no. I had to have the mother-in-law from hell poking her nose in, opening her big trap.

What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.

Perhaps it is the intrusion of sexuality that marks the end of precision.

broke into my house in the middle of the night and barged into our bedroom with a gun in her hand, she was the one who ended up dead. Even though I had accidentally shot her during a scuffle, we agreed that the best thing for us to do was to cover it up.