Taboo Quotes · Page 6

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Bob Seger

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

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

— Marvin H. McIntyre

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

— Jess C Scott

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

— Michael Leunig

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book…

— Emma Donoghue

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into…

— Charlie Brooker

“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

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult…

— Judy Blume

I don't like taboo subjects and I don't like elephants in the room. If there's an elephant in the room, I really…

— Frank Skinner

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

— Rene Konig

I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're…

— George Carlin

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound…

— Earl A Grollman

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has…

— Theodor Adorno

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced…

— Saul Bellow

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

— Olara Otunnu

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

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

— China Mieville

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

— Paul Watson

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Steven Knight

“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

“What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire”

— Anonymous

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

— Frank Zappa

I want to normalise taboo conversations to educate myself and others.

— Myha'la

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

— Eminem

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

— Shonda Rhimes

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

— Frank Langella

Breast implants in pageants is not a rarity. It's definitely not taboo. It's very common.

— Shanna Moakler

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

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

— Holly Hunter

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

— Kate Burridge

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

— Stephanie McMahon

For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.

— Ivica Dacic