Monk Quotes
Word Lists
See also Core English Vocabulary (M) List-
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
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I am a simple Buddhist monk.
Dalai Lama
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I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
Greta Garbo
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Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death`s this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn`t exist either.
Neil Gaiman
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I`m not being a monk. I live my life in New York. I have a girlfriend [Luciana Barroso]. But it`s not cost-effective for paparazzi to follow us. They can get one picture of us walking down the street.
Matt Damon
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I went through that adolescent crisis where you either jump into the river or jump into spirituality. I felt the call for a while; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh. - PB, referring to his early life as a monk
Peter Boyle
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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
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When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
Steve Lacy
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The solitary monk who shook the world.
Robert Montgomery
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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
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called `Monk`s Dream` almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called `Monk`s Dream` almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green
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So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
Andrea Harris
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I was spoiled by Monk`s music because it was so good, so complete.
Steve Lacy
Source: brainyquote.com
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I wanted to be a monk, ... A soldiering monk. Giving up everything you`ve known in your life to be part of this special unit — that appealed to me. I wanted to start fresh. I joined the French Foreign Legion.
Arjun Narsingh
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I wanted to be a monk, ... A soldiering monk. Giving up everything you`ve known in your life to be part of this special unit — that appealed to me. I wanted to start fresh. I joined the French Foreign Legion.
Arjun Narsingh
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Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
Alireza Jafarzadeh
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During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.
Aime Cesaire
Keywords: and :: be :: beast :: chess :: chessmaster :: combination :: competition :: during :: monk :: of :: prey :: shouldSource: brainyquote.com
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Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
Hugh Jackman
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A monk asked Master Haryo, `What is the way?` Haryo said, `An open-eyed man falling into the well
Barry Dubin
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[This week Marcel listened to the just-rediscovered tapes of a 1957 session of the Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane, at Carnegie Hall.] Hugely exciting. Two geniuses at their peak. ... Absorbing and imaginative - they never met in real life.
Mary Stuart
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin
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I felt like poisoning a monk.
Umberto Eco
