Monk Quotes · Page 6

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a…

— Antony Gormley

“I dropped out of computer engineering, and became Monk Scientist, to humanize the divine and divinize the human.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

— Adam Driver

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

— Harsha Bhogle

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

— Greta Garbo

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

— Satish Kumar

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

— Ted King

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

— Sheng-yen

From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,…

— Frederick Lenz

I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only…

— Larkin Grimm

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a…

— Frederick Lenz

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

In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was…

— Charles Kingsley

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that…

— Miles Davis

I'm no saint with this stuff or a monk, but I'm not going to train someone unless I want to be around…

— Teddy Atlas

Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that…

— A.C. Grayling

There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to…

— Alexander Pushkin

Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or…

— Gautama Buddha

[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with…

— Brennan Manning

One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize,…

— Brennan Manning

I wasn't expecting [the Monk competition] would necessarily do that. So I just did what I did and some good things continued…

— Jon Gordon

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts…

— Saint John Chrysostom

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

— Juliana Hatfield

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

— John Lone

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

— Ernst Toller

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

— Felicity Jones

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

— Tsem Tulku

The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.

— Jon Gordon

“I am just a simple monk. The sun shines on the just and unjust alike. If the sun does not judge, then…

— Janet Evanovich

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

— Philip K. Dick

All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.

— Henry VIII of England

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison…

— Umberto Eco

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

— Tom Hanks

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

— Loren Eiseley

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

— Frederick Lenz

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between…

— Izumi Shikibu

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time…

— Dalai Lama