Taboo Quotes · Page 6

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

— Frank Zappa

I want to normalise taboo conversations to educate myself and others.

— Myha'la

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

— Eminem

Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

— Bill Goldberg

“Taboo comes from a Polynesian word that means “sacred or holy” rather than simply “prohibited.”

— Mary K. Greer

I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

— Keshia Knight Pulliam

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

— Elton John

“Fight for change? Thirst for difference? Start talking what men avoid talking about.”

— Toba Beta

The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's…

— RuPaul

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

— Pierre Trudeau

“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.”

— Clarice Lispector

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book…

— Emma Donoghue

How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's…

— Ani DiFranco

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible…

— Steven Knight

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult…

— Judy Blume

I don't like taboo subjects and I don't like elephants in the room. If there's an elephant in the room, I really…

— Frank Skinner

Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of…

— John Carpenter

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in…

— Paul Watson

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have…

— Tom Lehrer

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information,…

— Alan Watts

“How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just…

— Trevor D. Richardson

The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity…

— Alfred Kinsey

The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few…

— Lord Chesterfield

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

— Lee Hsien Loong

The menopause shouldn't be so taboo because it's natural. I was filming on 'New Tricks' when mine started.

— Amanda Redman

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

— Queen Latifah

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

— Roseanne Barr

“A child should never be made to feel that sex and/or his/her sexuality is taboo or a mistake.”

— Asa Don Brown

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

— Thomas Dolby

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

— Morgan Saylor

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

— Ellen Goodman

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

— Mason Cooley

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

— Katy Butler

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

— Sarah Silverman

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at…

— Paula Cole

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

— Park Chan-wook

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

— Alan Dundes