Taboo Quotes · Page 4

I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

— Jess C Scott

“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

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

— Shonda Rhimes

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

— Frank Zappa

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

— Eminem

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

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be…

— Steven T. Katz

“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

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they…

— Simon McBurney

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

— Rene Konig

“For this taboo, retribution would soon knock my door But, I still wouldn't let that hold my feet to move on anymore.”

— Shumila Shah

'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

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

— Bronislaw Malinowski

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

— Paul Watson

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

A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can…

— Robert Greene

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

— Lord Chesterfield

“The vows are simple, the same kind of pledges I've heard at weddings of every faith. Except at the end, there is…

— Samira Ahmed

I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things -…

— Carine Roitfeld

“What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Blow jobs are okay, but kissing clients is still a taboo.

— Annie Sprinkle

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

— Lee Hsien Loong

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

— Queen Latifah

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

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

— Elton John

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

— Mason Cooley

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

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

— Thomas Dolby

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

— Alan Dundes

“But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?”

— Maryam Schonbeck