Monk Quotes - Page 2

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

No, monkeys are still having babies, why don't they have another human today?

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

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.

The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.

A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

I've never said flange to a monkey!

You never monkey with the truth.