Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk… — Walter Map 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
I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and… — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted… — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
“Godmind, Sonnet 2101 Come, look into my eyes, you'll smell the soil from Tabriz, chiming with the whirlwind of Konya. Come, peer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined… — Ron Kurtz 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
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
The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows… — Marcel Duchamp 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
In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that.… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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