Tattoo Quotes - Page 9

• We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  War, Giving, Woods

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.290

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• My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.

  Primo Levi

  Numbers, Holocaust, Arms

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I never watched those Spice Girls. I didn't enjoy that at all. So I didn't know Victoria Beckham well. But she came out with this pretty boy, got married, and the boy got more tattoos and more tattoos. And then I met her a few times, and we started work, and something happened. You know, she wanted it. She loves what she's doing.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Boys, Spices

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

  "Beware conflicts of interest". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Google, Internet

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• Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

  Linda Evangelista

  Art, Hair, Dresses

  Interview Magazin Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2013.

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• Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.

  Edith Hall

  Beautiful, Horse, Real

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• I just think they look good on people. You spend a lot of time in the mirror looking at yourself when you have tattoos. Same way with other people. It just looks good.

  The Rev

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

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• I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

  Amy Winehouse

  Ambitious, Planning, Enough

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• Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.

  Tyga

  Looks, Certain, Timelines

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Score a touchdown, kiss your tattoo. Kaepernicking!

  Colin Kaepernick

  Kissing, Nfl, Score

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• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States.

  Padgett Powell

  Communication, Phones, Cells

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.

  Charles Barkley

  Sorry, Stupid, Thinking

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• I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn't matter' ... [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

  Lauren Conrad

  Mom, Hurt, Thinking

  "Lauren Conrad Finds Life and Love After 'The Hills", www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

  Dolly Parton

  Done, Littles, Scar

  Dolly Parton, Randy Schmidt (2017). “Not Dumb, Not Blonde: Dolly In Conversation”, p.190, Omnibus Press

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• I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

  John Waters

  Anchors, Desire, Rope

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Instead of having a baby, why dont you get a tattoo of a baby first, and see how that works out for six months to a year, and then see if you're ready to have a baby.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

  Don Ed Hardy

  Issues, People, Life And Death

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• Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

  Tony Parsons

  Ugly, Flesh, Theory

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• As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.

  Lyle Tuttle

  Firsts, Craving, Remedy

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• Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Years, Forever

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• A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.

  Paul Washer

  Glasses, Jeans, Doe

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• As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.

  Jack London

  Thinking, Blood, Years

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Tribes, Records, May

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• I got a picture [tattoo] of Mohammed Ali on my side with one of his quotes. That's my guy. I look up to him. I'm like his number one fan.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Numbers, Guy, Fans

  "Carmelo Anthony talks Michael Jordan, Collecting Sneakers and More". Interview with Brock Cardiner, www.highsnobiety.com. February 2, 2015.

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