Quotes about Tattoos

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time. Votes: 3

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin. Votes: 3

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage. Votes: 3

Tattoos are my way of expressing myself without the need for words. Votes: 3

Tattoos aren't meant for everybody and they're too goddamn good for some people. Votes: 3

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul. Votes: 3

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoosbut we never saw his wife. Votes: 3

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife. Votes: 3

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body. Votes: 3

You might be a redneck if you need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. Votes: 3

Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's quite extraordinary. Votes: 3

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. Votes: 3

Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful....... Votes: 3

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. Votes: 2

I'm addicted to tattoos. I can't stop; I love them. Votes: 2

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. Votes: 2

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time. Votes: 2

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms. Votes: 2

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. Votes: 2

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you. Votes: 2

Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them. Votes: 2

I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become. Votes: 2

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked. Votes: 2

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial. Votes: 2

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image. Votes: 2

The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, world travelers and successful entrepreneurs. Their hairdos and tattoos are simply part of our culture, even when they raise eyebrows during PTA meetings. Votes: 2

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies. Votes: 2

The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans. Votes: 2

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend. Votes: 2

There was this really rock n' roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face. Votes: 2

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day. Votes: 2

I have over 35 tattoos. Votes: 0

I don't have any tattoos. Votes: 0

I love showing off my tattoos. Votes: 0

You're like a philosopher with tattoos. Votes: 0

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far. Votes: 0

Create a tattoo or something inspired by tattoos. Votes: 0

I wish I had a lot of tattoos. Votes: 0

This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth. Votes: 0

Homemade' sounds much better when not referring to tattoos. Votes: 0

I want to see your tattoos." "You do, huh? Votes: 0

I believe tattoos are a lifestyle not a fashion trend. Votes: 0

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story. Votes: 0

My tattoos remind me of all that I have been through. Votes: 0

Everything is addictive to me but tattoos are addictive to all. Votes: 0

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics. Votes: 0

My tattoos are reminders to hang in there when things get rough. Votes: 0

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin. Votes: 0

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years. Votes: 0

Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl. Votes: 0

My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms. Votes: 0

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. Votes: 0

She's a classy girl though, at least all her tattoos are spelt right. Votes: 0

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them. Votes: 0

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now. Votes: 0

Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos they're rebellious. Votes: 0

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good. Votes: 0

I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous. Votes: 0

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me? Votes: 0

Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats. Votes: 0

Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it, Votes: 0

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them. Votes: 0

I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos. Votes: 0

He would have been handsome"”in a serial-killer kind of way"”if not for those tattoos. Votes: 0

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films. Votes: 0

I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies. Votes: 0

I think kids today are going to look at their Facebook postings like bad tattoos one day. Votes: 0

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it. Votes: 0

Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little. Votes: 0

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with. Votes: 0

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor. Votes: 0

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco. Votes: 0

I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids initials. Votes: 0

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos. Votes: 0

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one. Votes: 0

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair. Votes: 0

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism. Votes: 0

I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat. Votes: 0

It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse. Votes: 0

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film. Votes: 0

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film. Votes: 0

Don't cut it," he said gruffly. "But no one'll see my tattoos if I don't." "Wear it up." -Dimitri, Rose, Dimitri Votes: 0

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns. Votes: 0

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me. Votes: 0

I don't need no surgery, or tattoos. I already got the marks and scars of the Universe on my face and body. Votes: 0

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. Votes: 0

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed. Votes: 0

I'd love to be on 'Glee.' I'd love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate. Votes: 0

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes. Votes: 0

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful. Votes: 0

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality. Votes: 0

The Army is America. We are America's sons and daughters. America's sons and daughters are getting tattoos. That means that American soldiers are getting tattoos Votes: 0

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well. Votes: 0

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit." Votes: 0

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit. Votes: 0

My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps Votes: 0

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to. Votes: 0

I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred. Votes: 0

My tattoos say "Stay strong." "Stay" on one wrist and "strong" on the other. I'm able to look at them and be thankful for being alive. Votes: 0

I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now. Votes: 0

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos. Votes: 0

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 ... Votes: 0

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these. Votes: 0

Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about. Votes: 0

How I grew up, everybody was telling me, "You can't do this, you can't get tattoos, you've got to look a certain way." Now, I'm like, "Why?" Votes: 0

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent. Votes: 0

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello. Votes: 0

As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status. Votes: 0

Iniesta doesn't dye his hair, he doesn't wear earrings and he hasn't got any tattoos. Maybe that makes him unattractive to the media but he is the best. Votes: 0

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos. Votes: 0

Everyone loves good looks, but personality is what sells for me. I want someone to have fun and go on adventures with. I do like guys with tattoos, though. Votes: 0

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street. Votes: 0

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me. Votes: 0

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear. Votes: 0

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother. Votes: 0

I'm not enthused by these rap dudes. All in they videos, posin' half nude, with all of them tattoos, Til I blacken they eyes and have them lookin' like raccoons. Votes: 0

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing. Votes: 0

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12. Votes: 0

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them. Votes: 0

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans. Votes: 0

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil. Votes: 0

I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity. Votes: 0

I don't have any tattoos - I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can't stick to one ensemble, I don't think I could stick to one tattoo. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes. Votes: 0

Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you. Votes: 0

It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you. Votes: 0

From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies! Votes: 0