Taboo Quotes

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

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

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

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

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

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

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers.

[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.

I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible responses, so fingers crossed.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

Got 27 children I never see.

Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.

Justice without strength isn't justice at all.

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try.""Try' being the operative word, " he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

Failure is a social taboo.

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

Why the anchor?""Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.

I think I like you, " I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear."I think I like you back.

You feel pretty, manly to me, " I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes."And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.

Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always.

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship.

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

It's not something a kid like you should've gotten ahold of.

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

I ended up comparing any girl I was ever with to you. I was never going to find you in any of them was I, AJ? Because there will never be another you.