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Indian Cricketer Sreesanth Tattoo - Celebrity Tattoo Designs

Indian Cricketer Sreesanth Tattoo. Praying Hands Tattoo Design on Sreesanth's Hand.

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.
~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000

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 and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000

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, 9 February 1990

Mideon Tattoos - WWE Superstar tattoo Designs

Mideon Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Mideon Arm tattoo Design

WWE Superstar Mideon has many tattoos on his arms

Pictures of WWF wrestler Mideon's tattoos

Mideon Tattoos

WWF wrestling superstar Mideon shows some of his tattoos

Mideon Tattoo Design

Mideon discussing the meaning behind some of his tattoos. The tattoo he is pointing to is of Doc Hollyday with the quote "I'm your huckleberry"

WWE Superstar Mideon Tattoos

Mideon showing his large rebel flag "Southern Justice" tattoo on his right forearm

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways. You may lose your house, your wife and other treasures. But of your moko, you cannot be deprived except by death. It will be your ornament and companion until your last day. ~Netana Whakaari of Waimana

I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future. ~Richard Jeni

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin. ~Cher

Ink to paper is thoughtful
Ink to flesh, hard-core.
If Shakespeare were a tattooist
We'd appreciate body art more.
~Carrie Latet

A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb,

Bam Bam Bigelow Tattoos - WWE Superstars Tattoo Design

Bam Bam Bigelow, the heavyweight wrestler with the flame tattooed head, had a professional wrestling career that spanned over two decades. Bigelow gained notoriety in the ring for his strong work ethic, enormous size, and incredible agility.

Fast Facts:

1. Real Name: Scott Charles Bigelow
2. Also known as: The Beast from the East
3. Born: September 1, 1961
4. Height and Weight: 6'3" 325 lbs
5. Wrestling debut: August 23, 1985
6. Finishing move: Flying headbutt off top rope
7. Deceased: January 19, 2007
8. Cause of Death: Lethal dose of cocaine and benzodiazepine.

Wrestling Debut
After training with Larry Sharpe in the early 1980s, Bigelow made his wrestling debut in Memphis, Tennessee in 1985. Although he had a brief stint with the WWE (then known as the WWF) in 1987, he spent most of his early years in Japan, wrestling with New Japan Pro Wrestling.

WWE
When he returned to the WWE in 1992, he took Luna Vachon on as his manager (and love interest) and started feuds with Doink the Clown, Tatanka (whom he later teamed up with) and his most famous rival, NFL's Lawrence Taylor. The rivalry with Taylor culminated in a match at WrestleMania XI that remains the most talked about fight of Bigelow's career.

ECW and WCW
Bigelow left the WWE in 1995 and spent his later years performing with ECW and WCW. He formed the Triple Threat with Shane Douglas and Chris Candido, and the powerful trio won a series of victories, disbanding and reforming through the late 1990s. Bigelow also won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship and the ECW World Television Championship, and in 2003, Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him number 68 of the top 500 singles wrestlers.

Retirement
Bam Bam Bigelow officially retired from wrestling in 2004, although his last match wasn't until November of 2006. After retirement he suffered a series of misfortunes in his personal life including a divorce, an arrest, and a near fatal motorcycle accident, which he said left him with a new appreciation of life. He died of a drug overdose on January 19, 2007.

Bam Bam Bigelow Tattoos

Bam Bam Bigelow Tattoos (source)

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good. ~Author Unknown

You think it, I ink it. ~Saying of tattooists

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994

The Undertaker Tattoos - WWE Superstar Tattoo Design

Undertaker Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design

Undertaker Demon Tattoo Design

Undertaker - Another Lost Soul Tattoo

WWE Undertaker Tattoos

Wrestler Undertaker Tattoos

WWE Superstar Undertaker Arm Sleeves Tattoo Picture

Undertaker SARA Tattoo

The Undertaker Tattoo Designs

WWE Superstar The Undertaker, Undertaker Demon Tattoos, Undertaker Sara Tattoo, Undertaker Arm Sleeves Tattoo Design, WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Proffessional Wrestler The Undertaker,

RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate? ~Author Unknown

Tattoo the pristine flesh
What is permanent anyway?
This ink only lasts 'til the grave,
Skin and ideas decompose
That which we did compose.
~Corri Alius

And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. ~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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

Dave Batista Tattoos - WWE Superstar Tattoo Design

Batista Back Tattoo Design

Picture of WWE superstar Dave Batista showing his awesome back and arm tattoos

Batista Arm Tattoo Designs

Dave Batista pictured here showing off some of his tattoos

WWE Superstar Dave Batista Tattoo Flag Tattoos

Close up of WWE wrestler Batista tattoo on his left shoulder. Batista's tattoo is of a Puerto Rican and Greek flag in honor of his heritage

WWE Batista Tribal Sun Tattoo - Belly Button Tattoo

WWE Wrestler Batista Showing off his Tattoos

Batista Left Arm Tattoo Designs

WWE Superstar Dave Batista 'The Animal'

wwe superstar dave batista tattoos

WWE Superstar Dave Batista, Batista Tattoo Pictures, Batista Back Tattoo Designs, Batista Arm tattoos, Batista Belly Button Tribal Sun Tattoo Design, WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Wrestler,

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

Tattoos are like marriage: it's a lifelong commitment, it hurts like hell, and the color fades over time. ~The Quote Garden

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

Think before you ink! ~Author Unknown

Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003

Australian Bowler Mitchell Johnson Tattoos

Australian Cricket Player Mitchell Johnson Tattoos

mitchell johnson, andrew symonds, shane watson

Australian Cricket Player Mitchell Johnson Tattoos

Australian Cricket Player Mitchell Johnson Tattoos

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. ~Jennifer Aniston

A genuine tattoo.... tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don't tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they're just there for decoration, then they're not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they're not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there's no mistakes. ~Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. Jack London - 1883

"As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla." - JACK LONDON

Brock Lesnar Tattoos

Brock Lesnar Tattoos

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

"The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation"
Captain James Cook - 1779

"With the Haidas, however, every mark has its meaning ?" - James Swan, Tattoo Marks of the Haida, 1878.

"Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves." Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871

In Tahiti, not all Europeans responded with the enthusiasm that had been exhibited by the British Admiralty's Captain James Cook, his Science Officer and Botanist, Sir Joseph Banks - who received a traditional Polynesian tattoo - and dozens of the ordinary sailors and seamen aboard Cook's ships. Missionaries who arrived in Tahiti at the end of the 18th century, turned tattooing from a standard practice into an embarrassing and punishable act of Paganism. King Pomare II was converted to Christianity in 1812 and he immediately put force behind a severe, regulated code that had been laid out by the missionaries. The death certificate for traditional tattoos was essentially signed in 1823 with the passage in the code that stated: "No one shall be tattooed and this practice should be completely abolished. This is an old and bad habit. Men or women who get tattooed will be judged and punished... The punishment for men will be work on ten measures of road for the first tattoo and 20 measures for the second tattoo... The punishment for women will be to make two big coats; one for the king and the other for the governor."

Rebecca Adington Tattoos - Olympic Rings Tattoo Design

Great Britain Swimmer Rebecca Adington Tattoos - Olympic Rings Tattoo Design

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

Anthropometamorphosis, Man Transformed or, the Artificial Changeling, Historically Presented, a Puritan diatribe published in 1653, railed against disfigurement of the body in pursuit of "ridiculous beauty," "filthy fineness" and "loathsome loveliness." John Bulwer

"In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves." H.G. Wells

"There is no perfect beauty that hath not strangeness in the proportion."
Sir Francis Bacon - London, 1639

"I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back." - Sarah Hall -- The Electric Michelangelo

Rugby Player Matt Banahan Tattoos

Rugby Player Matt Banahan Tattoos

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

"It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin."
- Herman Melville -- Moby-Dick

Everybody wants to see the pictures, and yet nobody wants to see them.
Ray Bradbury -- The Illustrated Man

"But to become a freak one needs a strong character and unusual determination."
George Burchett - Memoirs of a Tattooist, 1956

Traditionally, body art has served to attract the opposite sex, boost self-esteem, ward off or invoke spirits, indicate social position or marital status, identify with a particular age or gender group or mark a rite of passage, such as puberty or marriage. It's this sort of strictly prescribed, highly ritualistic decoration that Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher depict in their book, African Ceremonies. "We've tried to show how body art is relevant to every stage of development, from birth to death," says Angela Fisher.

Mark Foster Tattoos - Olympic Rings Tattoo

Mark Foster Tattoos - Olympic Rings Tattoo

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

Primitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness. (Ronald Scutt, Art, Sex and Symbol, 1974, p. 63)

"I wanted some decoration. See, the one on my wrist is for everybody; the one on my tit is for me and my friends. Just a little treat for the boys, like icing on the cake." - Janis Joplin

A great tattoo is a statement, not a style. And getting it is a journey, not a destination. - Vince Hemingson

The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. -- Author Unknown

Archer Laurence Godfrey Tattoos

Archer Laurence Godfrey Tattoos - Olympic rings and a Team GB lion tattoo design.

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

Death could come at any time, Angelina Jolie says. The tattoo is a strong reminder to live fully in the moment and never have regrets. (About her first tattoo of the Japanese Kanji for Death) I didn't get the tattoo for the dark reason everyone thinks.

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. - Angelina Jolie - 2003

Jolie says her tiger tattoo is a favorite of her kids. They talk to it all the time. They like to say hi to it and paint it with fingerpaints. Its like a little friend. - Angelina Jolie

It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. Its a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.? - Christina Ricci

England Batsman Kevin Pieterson Tattoos

England Batsman Kevin Pieterson Tattoos

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

"I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!" - Angelina Jolie

"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."
Alyssa Milano

It's kind of a show-biz lizard [in a top hat]. Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul. Nicolas Cage

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better. Halle Berry

Great Britain Cyclist Jamie Staff Biomechanical Design Tattoo

Great Britain Cyclist Jamie Staff Biomechanical Design Tattoo

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me. Dave Navarro

"I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn?t matter' ? I realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Lauren Conrad

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
Amy Winehouse

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo. Nicole Appleton

Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. Jennifer Aniston

British Swimmer Jamie King Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo Design

British Swimmer Jamie King Tattoos

British Swimmer Jamie King Tattoos - Olympic rings tattoo Design

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

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. Pamela Anderson

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. Johnny Depp

"Every time I get a tattoo, it?s a little fuck-you to anyone who tells me not to. It?s weird to be part of Hollywood, which tries to control every aspect of people, from what they say to the color of their hair. And I like the way getting a tattoo feels. If I?m depressed, it?s nice to get one and deal with the pain. I have one all the way down to my ribs. It hurt, but it felt good?like twisting a loose tooth. I?m not kidding when I say that if I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I?ll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco." ~ Megan Fox

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

Dame Kelly Holmes Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo Design

Dame Kelly Holmes Tattoos

Dame Kelly Holmes Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo Design

Dame Kelly Holmes is Britain's middle-distance runner Olympic Champion. She has a Chinese tattoo on her right shoulder.

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

Britney Spears in 2000 said this about her supposedly "fake" lower back tattoo, ?if I was to get a fairy on my back, that would be like she?s watching my back.?

I did what I could to move the muscles in my back so the tattoo could sort of stretch out. I always wished I had more muscles that could crinkle up.
Ralph Fiennes For the film, Red Dragon (2002) as Francis Dolarhyde

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.
Sanjay Dutt

I got my first tattoo, a Playboy Bunny, because I was young, dumb and drunk... Anna Nicole Smith