Taboo Quotes - Page 5

• The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

  Larry Kramer

  Love, Hate, Ideas

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• 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

  Past, Roles, Crosses

  "Neil Patrick Harris Interview, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas". Roundtable interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

  Al Yankovic

  Color, Social Taboos, Buttons

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• Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

  Johnny Carson

  Hero, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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

  Eminem

  Animal, Men, Social Taboos

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• I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

  Boy George

  Stars, Years, Crowds

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Social Taboos, People

  Song: Dilate Complete Album, Album: Dilate

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• Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

  Boy George

  Stars, Doors, Names

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

  Boy George

  Night, Care, Crowds

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Social Taboos, Mules

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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• I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

  Bryan Adams

  Social Taboos, Underwear, Swear

  Song: (I Wanna Be) Your Underwear, Album: 18 Til I Die, 1996

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• I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.

  Paula Cole

  Social Taboos, Laughing, Looks

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• Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

  Pete Townshend

  Kissing, Boys, Social Taboos

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• Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.

  Ray Davies

  Social Taboos, Dresses, Looks

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• She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

  Alice Cooper

  Social Taboos, Soul, Body

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• She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night.

  Eddie Money

  Night, Social Taboos, Hot

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• Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

  Helen Reddy

  Boys, Night, Social Taboos

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

  Bob Seger

  Social Taboos, Long, Dancer

  Song: Mainstreet, Album: Night Moves, 1976

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• They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

  Ray Stevens

  Shoes, Social Taboos, Tennis

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• We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.

  Biz Markie

  Hands, Social Taboos, Boogers

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

  Frank Langella

  Bed

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• Got 27 children I never see.

  Tom Waits

  Children, Social Taboos

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• He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

  David Bowie

  Hair, Social Taboos, Underwear

  Song: The Jean Genie, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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