I want to get a rib tattoo of a quote. I was wondering if any one has any good quotes that can be both feminine and masculine. I have a few ideas:
"the lion doesn't loose sleep over the opinion of sheep"
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the thing I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Anyone else have quote tattoos on their ribs?
XOXO
Julia
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin
This ones a bit long, but maybe you can take something from it...
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is much more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change, there is power." Alan Cohen
You may never exceed your own expectations, of yourself.
He is no fool that gives up that which he may not keep, to keep that which he can not loose
Carpe Noctem
Cheyenne Hyde
"You may never exceed, your own expectations, of yourself"
http://s46.photobucket.com/user/MsHyde2u/library/
(the password is feminine)
I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam... Popeyes the sailor man
All dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full" - Lucius Cornelius Sulla
"a little duct tape on the nipples is a small price to pay for beauty"
I am pretty sure I am settled on the quote "Lions do not lose sleep over the opinion of sheep"....now I just need to decide on a font. I think this will be able to look good feminine but I think its a great quote and it motivates me..plus it won't be questioned in guy mode. I am going to get it on my ribs....i need to make sure it is located below my bra strap...
I want too get two hearts on my ankle. It would represent my wife and I.
How about........"Just leave me be, woman"
"Some are wise some are otherwise". One of Oscar Wilde's best quotes.
Another is " Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative".
I never understood the whole quote tat thing much less on the ribs ouch!
Keep the ideas coming! I love the ideas so far! I want it to sound feminine but not be question while im in guy mode.
I often fight the urge to correct posts on here, but this one I have to say something, just in case the tattoo artist doesn't catch it. "LOSE sleep."Originally Posted by JuliaC
"Normal is what you get when you average out the weirdness that everybody has." Quote from my SO
Normal is a setting on a washing machine, or another word for average.
The fact that I wear a skirt as a male should not be taken as a comment on what you do, or do not wear, or how you wear it.
I have my permission to express myself in any manor I choose!
Have fun but remember a tattoo is something you'll live with the rest of your life, not preaching, just saying.
Link to my flickr photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kandybarr
Heh... no tat's for me (The SO asked just tonight about a "committment" tat. Apparently a BFF is considering same same.) I don't need you to ink your nody to express your love for me. Besides... needles scare me. But I'm libertarian... do what you want!
I like the refrain from an old Fleetwood Mac song: "...but don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer you want me to! [Oh Well]"
To me it expresses the thought that we should live our lives for ourselves, not how someone else thinks we should.
$.02
Kat42
Last edited by Kat42; 07-01-2013 at 01:06 AM. Reason: added scary needles comment
A tatoo should be something very meaningful to you, not just some hastily chosen saying. Is there some saying that changed your life, or something a beloved friend or relative told you?
Okay, with that said, here are a few suggestions.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
You can if you believe you can.
Everyone is weird in their own way.
Dude, wheres my shirt?
Last edited by Andy66; 07-01-2013 at 03:28 AM.
It almost sounds like she wants to brand you
Okay.....How about "Just let me be woman"How about........"Just leave me be, woman"
First of all I do not think tattoos on women enhance their bodies at all.
They are sort of "permanent".
Go for one of the transfer types and when your mood changes, wash it off.
Work on your elegance,
and beauty will follow.
I enjoy changing my avatar as I make improvements in my looks. Hopefully I'll always be improving. Tattoos lock that part of your body into a certain look, forever! That's a lot longer than I'm willing to commit too. On top of that, maybe I'm just "old fashioned" but I've never seen a tattoo that in any way enhanced the body of anyone.
Lynn Marie
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"You can sleep when you're dead."
If you wake up in the morning; See a sunrise; You name is not in the obituaries (long story); You see a sunset; Then its a good day. All the rest is superfluous B.S. (Bad Science).
I have an ear you can bend and a shoulder you can cry on.
I'm working on my Ph.D. in "Alternative Wardrobe Explorations"
Nice quotes but all I can say is "Ribs - OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!"
A favorite Coco Chanel quote: "A girl should be two things; who and what she wants."
Countess in exile
Keep Calm and Dance to Morrissey
Z and the Universe
I'm also on Twitter and Facebook
Lol how about this one....
Silence is golden, Ductape is Silver
I was in the Navy for 6 years and never got any ink.
I would suggest to you that you do the same.
If people were 100% honest, they would tell you that getting a Tat was a big mistake and had they a chance to do it over again they wouldn’t.
Mt advice, which you’ll no doubt ignore, is don’t do it.
You want to look like a girl, at least be a lady about it.
Just being honest, mind you.
George Carlin suggested this one for a tattoo on a person's back:
Please, let's not tell this guy what we wrote on his back.
He thinks it's a sailing ship!
Seriously, once you have settled on a design put it in a drawer. Take it out a year later and, if you still really want it, have it put on. Balance a year of not having the tattoo against the likelihood that you will spend a lifetime with a tattoo that you no longer want.
Dr. Tattoff isn't getting rich without reason!
Eryn
"These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I! How about that!" [Kaylee, in Firefly] [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"What do you care what other people think?" [Arlene Feynman, to her husband Richard]
"She's taller than all the women in my family, combined!" [Howard, in The Big Bang Theory]
"Tall, tall girl. The woman could hunt geese with a rake!" [Mary Cooper, in The Big Bang Theory]
Eryn is right. Don't get a tattoo on a whim. Don't pick something off the wall or out of a book in the tattoo shop. Find something (or better yet create something) that is totally unique to you. I have three tattoos, each of which I thought about for at least a year or more before getting them done. It's been nearly 20 years since the first one, and I have 0 regrets!
And please, please, please if you have words inked on your body, use a spellchecker and have the grammar checked by someone who is trustworthy. Nothing makes a person look more stupid than a tat with incorrect spelling or the use of the wrong word ("lose", not "loose").
If you think about it enough, you'll come up with something....
Best of luck,
Ana
(Fictional) case in point:
Unfortunately, real examples are all over the 'net.
Eryn
"These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I! How about that!" [Kaylee, in Firefly] [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"What do you care what other people think?" [Arlene Feynman, to her husband Richard]
"She's taller than all the women in my family, combined!" [Howard, in The Big Bang Theory]
"Tall, tall girl. The woman could hunt geese with a rake!" [Mary Cooper, in The Big Bang Theory]
Coincidentally, I've got an appointment for my first tattoo in a month and a half. It however isn't anything girly, but something I've wanted for a while. And I'm talking a while. I first thought of getting it tattooed about... 12 years ago, but not being stupid (no offence meant to anyone else, but I tend to be very paranoid in regards to myself), I waited to make sure I still wanted it. Long story short... mid-September
But as I said, that doesn't really fit the requirements that OP wanted. For quotes... lessee what I can find that could easily be seen as woman-empowering or manly, depending on your perpsective:
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - Dr. Seuss
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” - Mark Caine
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” - Mark Twain
“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” - J. K Rowling
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” - Ayn Rand
Hope some of those give you an idea. Good luck OP!
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