"A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands."
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"I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world."
"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."
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear"
"So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again."
"You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'"
"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
"Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
"Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry."
"I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness."
"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."
"It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed."
"There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves."
"At seventeen most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo or something slightly taboo. That is what I love about Rodrigo Garcia, he's not conventional. He's someone who sees people in extraordinary ways, and forgives them for being such."
"What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo."
"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."
"Just saw a woman with a big tattoo of Jesus on her back. I guess it's an ixnay on the oggy style-day."
"It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus."
"A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy."
"I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair."