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Quotes About Taboo

My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.
~ Robert Schimmel
When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.
~ Volkmar Sigusch
While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk
~ Martin Amis
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.
~ Bo Sanchez
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
~ Gordon Ramsay
It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with the t-shirt guy started sniffing the girls panties.
~ Frank Zappa
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
~ Salvador Dali
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'
~ Lorrie Moore
If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.
~ Shia LaBeouf
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
~ Shirley Knight
I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?
~ Lou Reed
Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.
~ Lou Reed
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.
~ Frank Zappa
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
~ Roger Ebert
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.
~ Garrett Hardin
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
~ Philip Larkin
Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.
~ Maxine Kumin
That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel.
~ David Duke
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
~ Don Rickles
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
~ Salman Rushdie
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
~ Louis Aragon
We've reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us refuse to say 'he or she died'? We're far more likely to say 'she passed away,' as though death were a sterile process of modest preparation, followed by shrink-wrapping, then rapid transit—where? Well, elsewhere. In short, it's the single thing we're loath to discuss in public.
~ Will Schwalbe
And more than anything, we are a pretty awkward society when it comes to talking about dying. It's supposed to happen offstage, in hospitals, and no one wants to dwell on it too much.
~ Will Schwalbe
I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.
~ William Butler Yeats