Tattooed Quotes - Page 5

• I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Should Have, Editors

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• Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

  Adolf Loos

  Men, Years, Criminals

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• There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

  Stephanie Klein

  Ugly Duckling, Almost Perfect, Ducklings

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• There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Heart, Dark, Black

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.349, Pan Macmillan

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• The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

  Kinky Friedman

  Teacher

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• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  Camilla Lackberg

  New York, Thinking, Would Be

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• I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.

  Pete Townshend

  Girl, Quality, Naked

  Song: Fast Food, 2006

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• I know people have tattooed my 'Sons of Anarchy' photos, they've painted them, on their bikes. I've seen a few of those, sent to me through friends, where they've actually taken my 8x10 Tig photo and put it right on their bike.

  Kim Coates

  Taken, Son, People

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• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Revenge, Book, Cities

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• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.

  Gary Allan

  Thinking, Ties, Twists

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• Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Dark, Potters

  Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

  Gilbert Adair

  New York, Space, Rude

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Advice, Common, Aids

  "Crucial Steps in Combating the Aids Epidemic; Identify All the Carriers" by William F. Buckley, Jr., archive.nytimes.com. March 18, 1986.

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• Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Moving

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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. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fear, Men, Imagination

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

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• I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on their skin. Talk about owning your own body, being in your body, claiming yourself. I love it. When the world is in an uproar over whether women should have a choice or not when it comes to their own bodies, being tattooed is one of the most visible choices of all.

  Margaret Cho

  Drawing, Should Have, Choices

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• I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body

  Margaret Cho

  Pain, Sadness, Fighting

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