Quotes of: Monks Keyword

...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...

A Familiar Rain

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Nhat Hanh

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

Philip Yancey

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

David Byrne

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Life

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he

Walter Bower

The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.

A moment with God ; Poetry

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Steve Lacy

The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them

Shri Radhe Maa

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

Tom Hanks

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

Ted King

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

Kabir Bedi

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Chick Corea

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

Antony Gormley

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

Saul Rubinek

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Gautama Buddha

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Denis McDonough

She said, "Well, that's right, she's going to heaven very soon. And now it's time for us to say good-bye to her and tell her how much we love her." Mary martha nodded and looked at the needlepoint in her hands. "Will her brain still be hurt, in heave...

The Monk Upstairs: A Novel

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

The Monk

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

The Monk