Ciphers Quotes

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

A man can't retire his experience.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.