A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice,… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
If you using local color in an unobtrusive way, it is all for the good. But if you stress it, the whole… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“He pressed his lips against hers and closing his own eyes, ignoring the pain in his side, and the uncertainty in his… — Julia Keaton Copy Share Image
I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters. — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image