Deciphered Quotes

#1. If Baudelaire, in hieroglyphics of the soul, had deciphered the return of the age of the sentiment and ideas, Poe, in the field of morbid psychology had more especially investigated the domain of the soul.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#2. According to the English scholar Richard Lloyd-Jones, some of the clay tablets deciphered from ancient Sumerian include complaints about the deteriorating writing skills of the young.

Steven Pinker

#3. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Lauren Oliver

#4. But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

Vincent Van Gogh

#5. Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

George Santayana

#6. The poetry was so ahead of its time no one has deciphered it yet

Harper Lee

#7. What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

Eva Rubinstein

#8. Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.

Faye Kellerman

#9. Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

Jean Cocteau

#10. Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Jose Saramago

#11. War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Thomas De Quincey

#12. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

Wm. Paul Young

#13. Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.

Markus Zusak

#14. Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence.

Markus Zusak

#15. Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

George Santayana

#16. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered.

Lauren Oliver

#17. Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

Adam Zagajewski

#18. People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#19. The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.'
There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra?

D.J. Stutley

#20. The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#21. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble after tapes surfaced of him saying negative things about other Republicans. Actually the Schwarzenegger tapes surfaced last year, but they weren't deciphered until this week.

Conan O'Brien

#22. In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

Penn Jillette

#23. If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.

Richard Brancatisano

#24. Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

Judi Dench

#25. How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

Jonathan Swift

#26. You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Gene Wolfe

#27. I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Franz Grillparzer

#28. I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation.

Clarice Lispector

#29. You look happy, Naughty. Have you and Nice made up yet?

Bella Andre

#30. For once in my life, I'd love to be myself around everyone else and be accepted for who I am instead of staying silent for fear of people mocking me.

Katie McGarry

#31. All great crime writing has a strong sense of place.

Anonymous

#32. The human mind gives color to the Earth's mind; the Earth's mind gives color to the human mind.

Ilchi Lee

#33. Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

Richard Steele

#34. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.

George MacDonald