Free tattoos sayings, quotes and quotations
When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.
~written sayings in tattoos by Michelle Delio
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives
Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.
~tattoos quotes by Author Unknown
The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~tattoos sayings by Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
~written sayings in tattoos by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
Inking without a plan gives Booth freedom to explore the desires of those seated in his chair, he says, to feed off their energy, allowing his clients' demons to help guide the needle.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, Bad Skin, Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002
Scars are tattoos with better stories.
~tattoos quotes by From a Toyota advertisement in Sports Illustrated magazine, 3 June 2002
Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate?
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Author Unknown
I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller.
~tattoos sayings by Steven Wright
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
~written sayings in tattoos by Thomas Carlyle
Tattoos are like marriage: it's a lifelong commitment, it hurts like hell, and the color fades over time.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by Terri Guillemets
[A] genuine tattoo.... tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don't tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they're just there for decoration, then they're not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they're not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there's no mistakes.
~tattoos quotes by Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000
There is no underground community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it's just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards.
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Joanne McCubrey, Walking Art: Tattoos, Mountain Democrat Weekend magazine, 9 February 1990
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
~tattoos sayings by Jack London
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
~written sayings in tattoos by Laurens van der Post
Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
~good sayings about Attitude by Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
~tattoos quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
~motivational quotes about Changes sayings by Ellen Glasgow
The only thing wrong with being an atheist is that there's nobody to talk to during an orgasm.
~tattoos sayings by Author Unknown
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
~written sayings in tattoos by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
~good sayings about Night by Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich
~tattoos quotes by Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
~motivational quotes about Life sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
~tattoos sayings by Henry David Thoreau
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
~written sayings in tattoos by Henry David Thoreau
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them
~good sayings about Earth Day by Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
~tattoos quotes by Havelock Ellis
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
~motivational quotes about Bores sayings by Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
A father is always making his baby into a little womanAnd when she is a woman he turns her back again
~tattoos sayings by Enid Bagnold
I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
~written sayings in tattoos by Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
~good sayings about Conformity by Virginia Woolf
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
~tattoos quotes by Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy ConnersLove is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conno
~motivational quotes about Anniversaries sayings by Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life
~tattoos sayings by Samuel Johnson
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