Monk Quotations

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.

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

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.

I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

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.

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

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

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

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

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

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

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Monk is such an irritating and annoying character, I think everyone relates to that at some point.

Monk is the cornerstone of USA 's original programming. It remains one of the highest-rated series in basic cable history. We are so proud to bring it to the next level.

Monk was great jazz artist, but geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

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.

I always admired good writing and read everything that came out. When I was married to John Monk Saunders, he read everything, too.

The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adams, Meredith Monk and David Lang) to fill in what Mozart left out,

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

He's been doing that in practices all the time. He's gaining confidence and you can see that first year getting out of him. He's really coming on as a leader with our group along with Monk and he can play, so were happy to see that.

Marcus Monk is fine, and we've got to get one more receiver to really help him. Cedric Washington has got to stay consistent, but we need another speed receiver.

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age

My brother's an inspiration to me. He dedicated himself like he was a monk at a monastery. He has shown that no matter what happens, if you keep your attitude positive there's nothing you can't accomplish.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

The more you know the less you talk.

We're thrilled with the way people have embraced the show and kind of relate to the character, not just the character of Monk but all the characters. It's a good job,

[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

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

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

There was a friend of my husband, John Monk Saunders, who was in charge of the sound department, which was a kind of reassuring thing.

I'm involved in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, and I work with students with that, and I also help try to raise funds for that.

If you cry "Forward" you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

It has not been proven that monk parakeets cause a significant health or safety hazard, and there are feasible and prudent alternatives to the capture and destruction of them.

At Length the Fox turnes Monk.

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.

It was proving difficult to find MONK programmers.

If I'm too calm, it's not really my game because my game was aggressive on the court, just attacking. Then once I go into the temple, then I really learn. I really figured out what that monk told me is really true.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

A habit does not a monk make.

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

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

I would not be happy if I had not become a 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.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

...'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.

A genius is the one most like himself.

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

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

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

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

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

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.

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.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

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

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.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

My mother said to me, ''If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. --Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian,

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

I am simply just one monk. That's all.

All hoods make not monks.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.