Becoming Quote by Douglas Adams

“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the…

— Douglas Adams

“Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world…

— Douglas Adams

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake.…

— Richard Dawkins

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was…

— Douglas Adams

Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its…

— Bonnie Hammer

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

— Tsem Tulku

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of…

— Seraphim of Sarov

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

— Satish Kumar

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early…

— Stephen Hough

“In 1746 a French scientist, Jean-Antoine Nollet, was interested in how fast electricity could be transmitted. Nollet, a monk, persuaded nearly two hundred other…

— Ronald T. Merrill