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Quotes About Taboo

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.
~ George R. R. Martin
I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it's madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.
~ George R.R. Martin
If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious
~ George R.R. Martin
Indeed, the pun is considered by many to be more distasteful than the common expletive. You might even say the pun is mightier than the s-word.
~ George Takei
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
~ Georges Bataille
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
~ Georges Bataille
have you heard about the young Hindu virgin from Kutch, who kept two tame snakes in her crutch, she said when they wriggle, it's a bit of a giggle, but my boyfriends don't like my crutch much. Ha ha ha!' 'Really, captain!' said Mother, outraged, 'I do wish you wouldn't recite poetry in front of Gerry.
~ Gerald Durrell
A friend of mine hated her husband so much that when he died she had him cremated, blended him with marijuana, and smoked him. She said, "That's the best he's made me feel in years."
~ Maureen Murphy
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
~ Louise Bourgeois
Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.
~ Helen Lawrenson
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
~ Woody Allen
In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.
~ Pat Paulsen
Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.
~ Woody Allen
One never kids about monkey sex with chocolate sauce.
~ J D Robb
Sometimes the unspeakable can come from the decent. And sometimes, it's possible to make yourself decent out of the unspeakable.
~ J. D. Robb
The goodie drawer of all goodie drawers. This dildo not only throbs, vibrates, expands, and comes equipped with hands-free feature, it sings a choice of five popular tunes." He crouched beside her. "You couldn't have tried it out that quickly." "Pervert. I turned it on to see. He's got some illegals sprinkled through here, too.
~ J.D. Robb
So, yeah, his people wouldn't have just frowned on his sex life; they would have handled him only with barbecue tongs while wearing a Hazmat suit and a welding mask
~ J.R. Ward
You would put your tongue here—" Xcor
~ J.R. Ward
I have twins and luckily when I first looked at them I felt, I am really into you. I am going to find it easy to love you. But there are mothers out there who do not make that connection. It is a taboo subject but it is not exotic. It is a nightmare.
~ Lynne Ramsay
Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
~ Najib Razak
Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.
~ Steven Knight
When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts.
~ Gina Gershon
Even the word 'cancer' is ugly, scary, burdensome - a roadblock for a conversation before it even starts. Who wants to go there? Much of the time, I'd rather not bring it up if I don't have to - and I'm the one with the disease!
~ Suleika Jaouad
It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
~ Kate McKinnon