Alain Robert
Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alain Robert
Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Amy Tan
Amy Tan

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Anand Sharma
Anand Sharma

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Anatoly Chubais
Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.