Wild Monk Quotes & Sayings

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid. — Morton Shulman

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled. — H.M. Tomlinson

I've known Chevy Chase for so long, I actually knew him when he was funny! — Richard Belzer

You told Detective Stotts you think a wild storm is coming." "I thought you were puking." "Not with my ears," he said. — Devon Monk

You can't kill Myron, Royce," Hadrian said, rapidly pulling the monk away as if he had found a child playing with a wild bear. "It would be like killing a puppy. — Michael J. Sullivan

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed. — Oscar Wilde

You want to go to the movies tomorrow night?" he asked, and Posey was so shocked she actually choked.
"What?" she managed.
"The movies? Tomorrow?"
"Um ... I, uh ... um ... what movie?"
He narrowed his eyes just a little, and Posey's nether parts gave a long, happy squeeze. Get his clothes off, those parts advised. We're lonely. — Kristan Higgins

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do. — Jacki Weaver

I didn't know what to do. Susan was temporary. My foot was permanent. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself. — Rolf Potts

What's of more concern: If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able to just be. — Rachel Cohn

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. — William Ralph Inge

People don't want the truth when they ask how you're doing after you lost your brother. — Jolene Perry

Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for — Sunday Adelaja

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children! — Sarah Jessica Parker

It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and I heard them, out there in the wild chirruping air. Turing to the window, I watched the birds fill the sky before disappearing, and when the air was still again, I watched the empty place where they had been. — Sue Monk Kidd

What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air
a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible. — Gustave Flaubert

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop. — Jack Kerouac

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. — Jim Carrey