Logo
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of differenc

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. – Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Co

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Tattoos
category

I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller. – Steven Wright

Category:
Tattoos

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Category:
Tattoos

A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. – Iban Proverb, as quoted on vanishingtattoo.com

Category:
Tattoos

There is no “underground” community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it’s just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards. – Joanne McCubrey, “Walking Art: Tattoos,” Mountain Democrat Weekend magazine, 199

Category:
Tattoos

Random Quotes

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. – Luther Burbank

Category:
gardening

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. – Carl Bernstein

Category:
Television

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. – Ellen Key

Category:
Experience

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme thats partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves – the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. – Dorothy Dunnett

Category:
design