Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They… — Kathy Change Copy Share Image
Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place… My body must be anchored to the ground and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do enjoy and feel compelled to talk about things that are taboo. One, because I think I'm a troublemaker inside, if… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“In Afghanistan a woman’s longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes’ notion of honor and by the mullahs.… — Asne Seirstad Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power. A confident group doesn’t need taboos to… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I have an opportunity to give a voice to those who have no voice. Even though film production wasn't a bucket list… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Every culture is different in terms of what is taboo and what is acceptable. I grew up in Singapore, where people are… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but… — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape… — Christine Stockton Copy Share Image
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image