Tattooed Beat Messiah

Famous quotes containing the words tattooed, beat and/or messiah:

    “Carmen: You’re cute. I like you.
    Philip Marlowe: What you see is nothing. I got a Balinese dancing girl tattooed across my chest.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)

    “the grave,
    so humble, so willing to be beat upon
    with its awful lettering and
    the body lying underneath
    without an umbrella.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places—to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.”
    —Olympia Brown (1835–1900)