Monk Quotes · Page 5

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

— Alexander Alekhine

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of…

— Frederick Lenz

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

— Robert Christgau

“Monk: Forgive our rudeness Hakkai: Please, don't worry about it. A little purity is good for them. Sanzo: You saying I'm corrupt?”

— Kazuya Minekura

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

— Petra Haden

“Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.”

— Desmond Seward

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk…

— Walter Map

If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves…

— Tim Ward

In my efforts to better my stamina and career, I find myself becoming more monk-like. And I'm not talking about the 'holy,…

— Lzzy Hale

My head monk asked how it was walking. I said it hurt without shoes. And he said, 'It hurts on the foot…

— Deepak Chopra

One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that…

— Sandra Cisneros

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the…

— John Burdett

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue…

— Maira Kalman

In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that.…

— Bill Orcutt

“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever…

— Thomas Merton

My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the…

— Ibn Arabi

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly…

— Janine Benyus

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him.…

— Ted King

“He is a monk. On his card it says INNER PEACE CENTER. I will go there in February for a tea ceremony.…

— Maira Kalman

The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and…

— Francis Parkman

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with…

— Ray Brown

“I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the…

— Abhijit Naskar

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

— Frederick Lenz

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

— Jose Saramago

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

— Dalai Lama

I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.

— John Cameron Mitchell

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

— Austin O'Malley

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

— Chris Avellone

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be…

— Pico Iyer

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

— Anonymous

“if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.”

— Henri Troyat

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

— George Payne Rainsford James

A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An outridere, that lovede venerie, A manly man, to been an abbot able.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

— Dogen

“If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.”

— Gregory Maguire

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

— Satish Kumar

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

— Felicity Jones