Taboo Quotes · Page 4

I always have been excited by taboo things, especially growing up, going to Catholic school.

— Violet Chachki

She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

— Alice Cooper

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

— Bob Dylan

We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.

— Amber Rudd

Can't wait to show my girls he sucked the piss out of my pussy.

— Lil' Kim

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

— Steven Pinker

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

— Eva Longoria

I felt like my culture was taboo, which is so wrong. And I, you know, I felt like everything that my family…

— Iman Vellani

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

— Ilka Chase

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs]…

— Boy George

“The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French…

— Stephen Clarke

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom,…

— Karl Lagerfeld

It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't…

— Cheryl James

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have…

— Riccardo Tisci

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd -…

— Ang Lee

For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation…

— Hyon Gyon

A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in…

— Peter Thiel

To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you…

— Jules Henry

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered…

— Eckhart Tolle

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with…

— Gore Vidal

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound…

— Earl A Grollman

“He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see…

— Emma Brockes

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism…

— Michael Pollan

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking…

— Robert A. Heinlein

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In…

— Edward Weston

We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Did you find any artists complaining who don't already complain all day long about everything? No. But have you ever met a…

— Urs Fischer

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.…

— Kate Zambreno

Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,…

— William Golding

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

— Henry Moore

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

— Adam Ant

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

— Bertrand Russell

I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.

— Steven Knight

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

— Anais Nin

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

— Marilyn Manson

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

— Chris Crutcher

This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.

— Kiki Dee

“Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen.”

— Lee Siegel