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Quotes About Taboo

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...
~ Angela Carter
Women should be obscene and not heard.
~ Paul Meredith Potter
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.
~ Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Standup is just dirtier, a far more risque kind of thing.
~ Jennifer Coolidge
If there are things that are off limits, why would you do standup?
~ Eddie Griffin
I'd have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.
~ Method Man
Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was - am - gay.
~ Tab Hunter
Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration - for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That's inspirational.
~ Taboo
In my house, we couldn't listen to 'Love to Love You Baby.' It was way too salacious back in the day. I remember my mom would turn the station off when that song came on the radio. But, of course, I played my album to death in my bedroom, with the door closed.
~ LaChanze
Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.
~ Thomas Moore
Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.
~ Thomas Moore
Group eating was scarcely less embarrassing than bodily functions
~ Thomas Savage
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
~ Thomas Stephen
Context-free, too! Just a shot of a hard, disembodied penis.
~ Tia Williams
There's more than zero people famous for making vaginal-yeast brioche?
~ Tia Williams
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
~ Tim Burton
Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
~ Marilyn Manson
Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.
~ Lydia Hearst
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
For guilt was the existential edge of sex. Without guilt, sex was meaningless.
~ Norman Mailer
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.
~ Orson Scott Card
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
~ Orson Welles
Man who fart in church, sit in pew.
~ Confucius