Minotaur Quotes

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth. (Jorge Luis Borges)
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. View quote
Rick Riordan
Your Highness is a juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs and four-letter words. One of the heroes even wears the penis of a minotaur on a string around his neck. I hate it when that happens. View quote
Roger Ebert
The modern writer is too often a Theseus so enamored of the grotesque appearance and strange cavortings of the Minotaur that he has decided to make his permanent abode in the Labyrinth, and to accept the Minotaur's laws as his own. View quote
Robertson Davies
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. View quote
Pablo Picasso
She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me. I imagined she was going to say, oror something like that. Instead she said, "You drool when you sleep. View quote
Rick Riordan
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Every labyrinth has its minotaur. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
[Footnote] Pericles immediately banished his strongest rival, Cimon, who had achieved popularity by bringing the bones of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur, back to Athens from the island of Scyros. As Theseus was a myth, he could hardly have had any bones. Nevertheless, Cimon brought them back. View quote
Will Cuppy