Taboo Quotes · Page 3

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

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

— Henry Moore

A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with…

— Frank Zappa

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has…

— Joyce Carol Oates

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo…

— Lily Collins

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

— Ang Lee

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius…

— Helen Reddy

“He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. "One rule in life", he…

— J.G. Ballard

Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the…

— Rene Konig

'Vicky Donor' dealt with a taboo topic, but it was a family entertainer and not cringe-worthy, which helped make it a commercial…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking…

— Jeanette Winterson

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe…

— China Mieville

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 time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us…

— Olara Otunnu

Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons.…

— Elizabeth Ashley

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a…

— Rashida Jones

Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will…

— Eva Paterson

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

— Holly Hunter

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

— Neil Patrick Harris

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

— Frank Langella

Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

— Al Yankovic

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

— China Machado

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.

— Arlo Guthrie

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

— Stephanie McMahon

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

— Jon Scieszka

Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.

— Steven Knight

The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

— Kevin Parker

“Money is the last taboo. People will talk about their sex lives before they discuss their finances.”

— Marvin H. McIntyre

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

— Alan Watts

At the time I came off 'Mannix,' it was taboo to use a TV star in motion pictures.

— Mike Connors

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

— Bob Seger

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness… are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You know what's a bigger taboo than being fat? Not wanting to get married.”

— Shonda Rhimes