Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I really want to help people because it seems to be there's this mental block and people think in order to lose… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs.… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him.… — Ted King Copy Share Image
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“He is a monk. On his card it says INNER PEACE CENTER. I will go there in February for a tea ceremony.… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and… — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“To ... to ... What the heck to call a duke who ’comes a monk?” “Brother?” Colin ventured. Will shook his head.… — Patricia Coughlin Copy Share Image
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the… — Denis McDonough Copy Share Image
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar,… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
“Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense… — Bobby Sager Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many… — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Sent to the Monk" Night falls and the empty intimacy of the whole world fills my heart to frothing. The past has… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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