Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.
Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.
Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est. " As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos. " He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.
I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos. " "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago. " She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.
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.
A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.
I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it.
Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that.
My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.
When one door closes, another one opens.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.
After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a new religion - I'll go to Bali and research Hinduism, or I'll go to Thailand and get another tattoo from Thai tattoo artist Ajarn Noo Kanpai.
With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake. ' It's not a snake!
The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.
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.
Everybody knows I have the ratchetest booty tattoo of an ex-boyfriend.