#tattoo

Seriously, what is it about men in jeans and bare feet which is so totally hot? ↗

— Samantha Towle

#rock-stars #tattoos #men

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER ↗

— Warren Ellis

#inspirational #tattoos #inspirational

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

#body #confidence #creation #creative #emotion

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are. ↗

— Roger Caillois

#art

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#typo #imagination

I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. She kissed his cheek and stepped back. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about that tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #wessa #will #will-herondale #will-s-dragon-tattoo

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue. ↗

— William F. DeVault

#quote #tattoo #tongue

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

— Ashley Tisdale

#because #believe #me #mom #tattoo

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. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#even #feeling #gives #naked #people

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#awful #because #before #book #concepts