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
One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“If ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery, it was I." "Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing… — G.K. Chesterton 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 Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study," said Mr.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I like to read psychologist's books. 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' that's one of my favorites. Those kinds of books. — Ricky Rubio Copy Share Image
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An outridere, that lovede venerie, A manly man, to been an abbot able. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream. — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“I dropped out of computer engineering, and became Monk Scientist, to humanize the divine and divinize the human.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where did you learn to kiss like that?” I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. “I said… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
