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If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.
'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.
Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like a monk or a priest.
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 life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.
If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as the life of a monk.
Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I'd like to be remembered for more than just that.
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
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 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 think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile.
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.
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?
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.
There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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.
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.
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.
In a lot of ways, their journeys are opposite of each other's: Aang was a peace-loving monk, through and through, whereas Korra is a dyed in the wool fighter.
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.
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.
I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.
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.
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.