Tattoo Quotes - Page 2

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Tattoos are my way of expressing myself without the need for words.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

When one door closes, another one opens.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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.

I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

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.

I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means.