Creatures Quote by Terry Pratchett

“The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices, his dark…

— Michelle Frost

“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

“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another…

— j.d. salinger

“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at…

— Tahir Shah

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

— Benedict of Nursia

“There’s a story about a couple of Zen Buddhist monks. One day they leave the monastery and walk into town to buy vegetables. Along…

— Sean Chercover

A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk…

— Tim Ward

“Grave What do you think of my new glasses I asked as I stood under a shade tree before the joined grave of my…

— Billy Collins

“5. If You Love, Love Openly Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun…

— Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps

“But you're a monk!”

— Van Helsing

“I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The stubble made me wonder what the hair on the rest of his body would look like, if there was any at all.”

— Vivian Arend