I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity. — Katy Butler Copy Share Image
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me. — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to… — Robert Byron Copy Share Image
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell 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
We should fulfill the Minsk Protocol. The main reason for the sanctions is that Russia broke a taboo: It triggered a war… — Alexei Navalny 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
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
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born.… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“[W]hat upset grownups of both sexes about Elvis' performance was that he had broken the deepest taboo of all. He used his… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Did you find any artists complaining who don't already complain all day long about everything? No. But have you ever met a… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image