Top 100 A Tattoo Quotes
#1. You have a tattoo of a woman's necklace on you back, Silas." She's smiling now. "Very lumberjack-esque." She's enjoying this. "Yeah, well. You have trees on you back. Not much to brag about. You'll probably get termites.
Colleen Hoover
#2. Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.
Andy Weir
#3. Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit.
Eva Mozes Kor
#4. I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a niche market here - a hair lip.
Margot Robbie
#5. A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.
Danielle Valenilla
#6. Strategically placed at the level of her T3 vertebra, just below the deepest back on any of her blouses, was a tattoo of the human brain. He had to look away or else he'd jump her bones all over again. The brain got him every time.
Meredith Marple
#7. Listen. I own this city. Bought and paid for. I have the key to the city in my pocket and a tattoo that says 'Fuck you. I'm the Mayor.'.
Scott Lefebvre
#8. There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo ... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
Ed Sheeran
#9. THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided.
James Salter
#10. I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
Eli Roth
#11. A tattoo is permanent; with a marriage you can more easily change your mind.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
#12. I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'
Brittany Snow
#13. I'm not a cop. I'm just a tattoo artist. I'm just a guy who used to be in love with a girl. I'm just a fool who's been fooled too many times before. I'm just a man who's finally getting his revenge.
Karina Halle
#14. A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.
Paul Washer
#15. Tramp stamp. A tattoo in the center of a woman's lower back. Also referred to as a "California bumper sticker." The germans refer to this as "arschgeweih," which translates as "ass antler." Bravo!
Jeff Johnson
#16. 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.
V. Vale
#17. Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.
Alyssa Milano
#19. She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there!
Jason Aldean
#20. She said 'a tattoo is a badge of validation'.
But the truth of the matter is far more revealing.
It's a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.
Jimmy Buffett
#21. I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.
Skylar Grey
#22. If you turn up with a tattoo on your face, telling me you've shagged a lady boy, I'm definitely not marrying you.
Samantha Towle
#23. Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.
Jenna Jameson
#24. She wears a Val Surf T-shirt and boys' boxer shorts and she has a boy's phone number scrawled on her hand. Part of her wants to spit on it and rub it off, and part of her wishes it was written in huge numbers across her belly, his name in gang letters, like a tattoo.
Francesca Lia Block
#25. When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
Gisele Bundchen
#26. You're getting a tattoo? What is going on with you, Abby? Did you breathe toxic fumes in that fire?
Jamie McGuire
#27. And really, only Tom would have a tattoo that says ...
Samantha Towle
#28. Marriage is supposed to be permanent. It's like a tattoo that yells at you.
Dov Davidoff
#30. You can't draw a tattoo on the face and expect it to be hidden when you don't wear a veil.
S.A. David
#32. You have to have your face in the food. These days people think a tattoo and a bottle of Sriracha equals success.
Bobby Flay
#33. I think if you're gonna get a tattoo, just get one: the words, 'I'm dumb.' That's it. That way in 10 years, when you go, 'Why did I get this?,' you can be like, 'Oh, I'm dumb!'
Daniel Tosh
#34. 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.
Ronnie Dunn
#35. Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
Erma Bombeck
#36. I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.
Clementine Von Radics
#38. Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.
Tom Petty
#39. Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.
David LaRochelle
#40. I'm never getting a tattoo. My secrets are etched safely on the inside and I intend to keep them there.
Lisa O'Donnell
#41. Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo travels all the way to the soul.
Beth Ann Luna
#42. Terry," Jennelle waved a hand in front of her monitor, disrupting Terry's view, "he has a tattoo on his back! I know this because his shirt is untucked and starting to ride up. This means skin, hun.
Kate Whitaker
#44. I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
David Labrava
#47. A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.
Tony Parsons
#48. The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went into each, you could wake up the next morning in some serious trouble.
John Scalzi
#49. You have a tattoo, a black eye, and I just saw your bra. You are getting to be very hardcore, Fern.
Amy Harmon
#50. I didn't exactly relish the idea of getting a tattoo, trust me. It was right up there with blue hair.
Rachel Hawkins
#51. I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.
Denis Leary
#52. When Marion had been a teenager, she wanted a tattoo. As an oldest child who did mostly what was expected of her, she had been fascinated by the abandon tattoos implied, the willing, blind leap into commitment.
Erica Bauermeister
#53. Knowing Charlie, she wouldn't have gotten a tattoo unless it really meant something to her. It had to be something she knew she would never grow tired of. Never stop loving.
Colleen Hoover
#54. Albion Park on a fierce spring morning. A mad March day of ice and fire. Thomas's feet beat a tattoo on the path. Every hair, every bristle on his chin stands on end. He is a small star-ship of blazing neurons- He is a librarian on his way to work, half-blind with sun and cold and memory.
Maggie Gee
#55. A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.
Don Ed Hardy
#56. 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
#57. I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.
Troy Polamalu
#58. The truth is a tattoo on your forehead. You can't see it yourself. I am your mirror.
Hanif Kureishi
#59. He had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an ill-formed notion of their appearance.
Cormac McCarthy
#60. No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.
Lena Dunham
#61. One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet ... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
Sam Claflin
#62. I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
Adam Ferrara
#63. Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
Jack London
#64. I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.
Amanda Holden
#65. You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
Kate Upton
#66. Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.
Mat Hoffman
#67. Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.
Chris Evans
#68. There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.'
Lena Headey
#69. I have a tattoo that I got in Memphis, and another I got in Dayton.
Colin Donnell
#70. I was aware of Shostakovich's hidden code; the repeated, niggling act of subterfuge buried deep within the music: D - E-flat - C - B, played straight through, played backwards, flipped upside down; a tattoo on the soul of the music. (pg 329)
John Sinclair
#71. 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
#72. I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back. I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan!
Lights
#73. She had a dream about a tattoo. This was a pleasant dream. She was walking away and she had the most beautiful tattoo. It covered her shoulders, her back, the back of her legs. It was unspeakably fine.
Joy Williams
#74. Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!
Sailor Jerry
#75. She had a tattoo on the inside: the letters SPQR, a crossed sword and torch, and under that, four parallel lines like score marks.
Rick Riordan
#76. I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
Sarah Hall
#77. I think husbands are like tattoos
you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, 'I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now.
Sloane Crosley
#79. I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
Cara Delevingne
#80. I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
Gary Speed
#82. Don't you ever get a tattoo, understand? All is says is that you ain't open to change.
Nami Mun
#83. My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
Jacob Dalton
#84. You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.
David Levithan
#85. The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it.
Eric Arvin
#86. Being transgender and in need of surgery is a bit like wearing a tattoo advertising something that you have no intention of selling, and constantly being asked to represent what you are not selling.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#87. I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.
Seann William Scott
#88. I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
Warren Ellis
#89. 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
#90. Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#91. I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.
Steven R. McQueen
#92. I can't live without scissors. I don't have any tattoos, but I thought if I ever got a tattoo, it should probably be scissors.
Rebecca Ward
#94. There was a time when, if you encountered someone with a tattoo, you could pretty much assume he was either a sailor or had, at one time or another, been in prison. There was something, it seemed, about men being cooped up together that made them want to draw on themselves.
Cuthbert Soup
#95. Know what one of the guys at the drive-through Starbucks has on his forearm?" Bernadette said. "A paper clip! It used to be so daring to get a tattoo. And now people are tattooing office supplies on their bodies.
Maria Semple
#96. I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.
Sarah Shahi
#97. A pair of skinny jeans and a tattoo does not make you a leader.
Christine Caine
#98. The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
Idris Elba
#100. Bennett licked and sucked the skin around my hipbone. "A tattoo would look sexy right here. And I'd be the only one to see it - when I did this.
Christina Lee
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