Sam Weller

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

American Author

Mark Waters

Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.

American Director

David Remnick

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

American Journalist

Paramahansa Yogananda

The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

Indian Leader

Sophie Hannah

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

British Poet

Refers to actual physical locations, often ones you can walk through.

Physical Spaces

Suggests difficulty in moving through due to complexity.

Challenging Navigation

Can describe complex systems, not just physical places.

Metaphoric Use

Used for ideas or arguments that are hard to understand.

Abstract Concepts

Describes text or speech that's hard to follow.

Impenetrable Text

Sometimes signifies richness or depth, not just confusion.

Not Always Negative

 that I think the creative process in architecture, the design process, is extremely circuitous. It's labyrinthine. It's Calvino's idea of the quickest way between two points is the circuitous line, not the straight line. And definitely my life has been part of that. I'm going to start with some simple kind of

Thom Mayne: Architecture...

 and the Aztecs engaged which is why there are very few mines and Aztecs doTERRA Mata had a different strategy they took off and hid in this labyrinthine networking kind of spider webbing system of canyons called the copper canyons and there they've

Labyrinthine