Famous Monk Quotes

#1. A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

Penn Jillette

#2. One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

John Berger

#3. 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.

Kathryn Harrison

#4. The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened.

Watchman Nee

#5. What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

Danny DeVito

#6. Jesus soon is coming,
and Christmas too,
Good reason for being happy,
Helping people to do.

Miguel El Portugues

#7. Generations of people staying close to home, there for each other, doing what they knew best, enjoying being a burden to each other.

Hugh Howey

#8. People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

Christian Rudder

#9. I'm famous. Ain't that a bitch?

Thelonious Monk

#10. 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.

Saul Rubinek

#11. It's not the darkness that's terrifying, it's what you might find in it.

J.M. Darhower

#12. If love is a question, I want you to be its answer.

Namrata

#13. See, that's the problem with getting hit by lightning. You get burned.

Jessica Verdi

#14. On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

Marya Mannes

#15. As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Sylvia Day

#16. The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.

Nicholson Baker

#17. All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

Henry VIII Of England

#18. But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning.

Jon Steele

#19. Give me one year.Give me a year to prove to you that we belong together. That your darkness won't blot out my light. Promise me

Robin Bridges

#20. Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

Laurence J. Peter

#21. I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.

Sophie Monk