Monk Quotes · Page 3

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

— Ethiopian Proverb

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

— Y'lan Noel

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

— Douglas Adams

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.

— Steve Lacy

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

— Torii Hunter

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

— John Gourley

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“For two years I’ve been a monk but the only monastery I’ve lived in is my own mind.”

— Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au

“He’s a monk, the fifth of his kind. I call him Monk E, and he is a primate.”

— Jarod Kintz

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with…

— Voltaire

Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to…

— Frederick Lenz

I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I'd like to be remembered for more than just…

— Tony Shalhoub

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it…

— Steve Lacy

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there…

— Gautama Buddha

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels…

— William Mountford

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

My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims.…

— Ibn Arabi

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

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

— Tim Ward

If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main…

— Tenzin Palmo

I remember [Joe] Lovano came around to me at that time [of Monk competition]. And I had taken some lessons with Joe…

— Jon Gordon

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness…

— Gautama Buddha

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After…

— Eckhart Tolle

Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every…

— John Coltrane

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange…

— Jerome K. Jerome

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is…

— Gautama Buddha

Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed,…

— Cassandra Clare

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

— Francois Rabelais

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

— Max Roach

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

— Evagrius Ponticus

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

— Benedict of Nursia

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

— Hugh Jackman

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football…

— Bobby Robson

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

— Ronnie Lott

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I…

— Philippe Starck

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“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