"There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out."

-- Geraldine McCaughrean

#Clever Quotes #Labyrinth Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”
“The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."”
“I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.”
“Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.”
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
“If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.”
“Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.”

Source : "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.
“I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.”

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