Monk Quotes - Page 9

• I've always thought a good whodunnit needed vampires, monks, and gods. P.G. Holyfield has created an engaging world that both fantasy and mystery fans will enjoy.

  Mur Lafferty

  Vampire, Fans, World

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• Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

  Anthony de Mello

  Stars, Rivers, Mountain

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.28, Image

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• A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Writing, Animal

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• 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.

  Eric Clapton

  Kings, Jelly, Armstrong

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

  Max Roach

  Music, Roles, Jazz

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• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  Saint Basil

  Should Have, Voice, Silence

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• Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness, Thinking, Ideas

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• The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

  Anthony of Padua

  Spiritual, Prayer, Perfect

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• The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Animal, Rocks

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• A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Enemy, Needs

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.210, Paulist Press

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• 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?

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Failure, Communication

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• We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

  Bobby Robson

  Football, Player, Levels

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• I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Death, Kings, Heaven

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• Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Jobs, Book

  Interview with Lee Carter, www.hintmag.com.

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• The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Depressing, Struggle, Artist

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• Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

  Michael Caine

  Hey, Want, Quiet

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Mercy, Reason

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Reign, Virtue, Oppressed

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.271

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• Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest.

  Charlie Munger

  Numbers, Vices, Arguing

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• 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, Ordination

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• If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

  Francois Rabelais

  Religion, Monkeys, Young

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

  Moby

  Fake People, Taste, People

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• I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.

  Lenny Bruce

  Funny, Money, Law

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The more you know, the less you need.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Positivity, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

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• All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed drinking - it is impossible to think of a person who enjoys drinking and not laughing. He enjoyed women - it is difficult to think of a man who enjoys women and not laughing. He was friendly, almost in love, with a prostitute, Mary Magdalene. It is difficult to move with a prostitute - he was not moving with a Catholic monk, not with a priest, not with the Pope... with a prostitute! These were the condemnations against him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Real, Drinking

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