Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation". — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
I love Thelonious Monk's song "Just a Gigolo." It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims.… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
I remember [Joe] Lovano came around to me at that time [of Monk competition]. And I had taken some lessons with Joe… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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