Quotes About The Minotaur

#1. The morning sun was shone over the bronze blade. There were no more traces of blood left. "Would you believe it Ariadne?" said Theseus "The Minotaur almost didn't defended himself.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Photographer Man Ray, for example, is a compelling suspect given that the posing of Ms. Short's body appeared to mimic the Minotaur, one of his better-known photographs.

David McGowan

#3. The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.

Georgi Gospodinov

#4. Cecie keeps telling him she'd like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.

Steven Sherrill

#5. I'm a monster," said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. "Everyone says so."
The Minotaur glanced up at her. "So are we all, dear," said the Minotaur kindly. "The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

Werner Herzog

#7. She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me. I imagined she was going to say, You killed a minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that.
Instead she said, You drool when you sleep.

Rick Riordan

#8. I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.

Madonna Ciccone

#9. The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Ben Okri

#10. The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth .

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. You see? You're not paying close enough attention. Theseus fought for his life," He shook his head. "But the minotaur, he fought for Ariadne.

Sarah MacLean

#12. I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The Minotaur")? All women are like that. Given a chance, they'd all fornicate with a bull.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#13. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
[The Minotaur]

Albert Camus

#14. The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.

Rick Riordan

#15. I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

Haruki Murakami

#16. The skins matched all the tones of chocolate, coffee and wood. There were many white suits and dresses, and many of those flowered dresses which in the realm of printed dresses stand in the same relation as the old paintings of flowers and fruit done by maiden aunts to a Matisse, or a Braque.

Anais Nin

#17. What do I do now?" "I don't know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Every labyrinth has its minotaur

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#20. I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

Catherynne M Valente

#21. Such obsession with reaching the moon, because they had failed to reach each other, each a solitary planet! In silence, in mystery, a human being was formed, was exploded, was struck by other passing bodies, was burned, was deserted. And then it was born in the molten love of the one who cared.

Anais Nin

#22. Where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.

Catherynne M Valente

#23. If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Pablo Picasso

#24. Oberon perked up, Awesome! I've never seen a base model elf before! But they come with bonus dudes?

Kevin Hearne

#25. Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

Tanya Masse

#26. He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least of which is the fact that no one with eyes will see how and where he gets lost and lonely and is torn limb from limb by some cave-Minotaur of conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.

Anais Nin

#28. All that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.

Carlos Fuentes

#29. To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditial love ... I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.

Gisele Bundchen

#30. Riddles, I hate fucking riddles," Ristan growled and shook his dark head. "Why couldn't she have sent a minotaur, or maybe David Bowie and a bunch of Muppets to mess with us?

Amelia Hutchins

#31. Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

Rosamund Pike

#32. Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Jennifer Donnelly

#33. A microbe is more deadly than a minotaur

Marty Rubin

#34. There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.

Don Roff

#35. The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

Pope Francis