“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the… — Anohni Copy Share Image
“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one.… — Faith Erin Hicks Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met… — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see… — Irina Serban Copy Share Image
“...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
