Monk famous quotes

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

#Acting #Actors #Monk

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

#Catholic #Monk #Educated

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

#Peace #Hands #Monk

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.
-- Burton Cummings

#Buddhist #Monk #Buddhist Monk

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.
-- Chris Avellone

#Monk #Reason

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
-- Dalai Lama

#Buddhist #Simple #Monk

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
-- Evagrius Ponticus

#Men #Monk

A habit does not a monk make.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Doe #Monk #Habit

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
-- George Payne Rainsford James

#Book #Envy #Monk

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

#Decision #Desperate #Monk

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
-- Henry VIII of England

#Dying #Monk #Lost

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
-- James McAvoy

#Humanity #Selfless #Monk

Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.
-- Jason Epstein

#Horse #Ipods #Monk

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft
-- John Coltrane

#Fall #Dark #Monk

A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.
-- John Lydgate

#Monk

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.
-- Jose Saramago

#Kings #Doe #Monk

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

#Heart #Bird #Monk

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
-- Marcel Duchamp

#Artist #Serenity #Monk

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.
-- Marvin Barnes

#Basketball #Player #Monk

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.
-- Mata Amritanandamayi

#Spiritual #Children #Monk

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
-- Max Roach

#Music #Roles #Monk

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.
-- Muriel Barbery

#Thinking #Monk #Conclusion

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
-- Nhat Hanh

#Breathe #Monk #Activist

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.
-- Philippe Starck

#Design #Genius #Monk

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.
-- Rich Mullins

#Thinking #Years #Monk

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
-- Steve Lacy

#People #Monk #Threat

...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.
-- Terry Pratchett

#Hair #Monk #Said

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

#Real #Teaching #Monk

I felt like poisoning a monk.
-- Umberto Eco

#Motivational #Monk #Poisoning

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.
-- Walter Map

#Boys #Rose #Monk

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
-- Austin O'Malley

#War #Gunpowder #Monk

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
-- Chris d'Lacey

#Evil #Killing #Monk

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.
-- Petra Haden

#Monk #Wells #Knows

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.
-- Marvin Barnes

#Basketball #Player #Monk

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.
-- Ronnie Lott

#Art #Example #Monk

I love Thelonious Monk's song "Just a Gigolo." It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of him playing it, I'm mesmerized, because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an amazing thing out of it.
-- Glenn Ligon

#Song #Monk #Pop Music