Quotes About Ciphers

#1. There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.

Geoffrey Wood

#2. 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.

Dan Brown

#3. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

Alberto Manguel

#4. I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

Margaret Thatcher

#5. I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

Nicolas Roeg

#6. He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

Francis Bacon

#7. Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars ... Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit ... I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

Frederic Chopin

#8. It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself

Chuck Missler

#9. 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.

Jeremy Denk

#10. He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Francis Bacon

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

James Anthony Froude

#12. We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.

Robert Ludlum

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

Horace

#14. Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps ...

Alexander Grothendieck

#16. If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

Eliot Paulina Sumner

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. A man can't retire his experience.

Bernard Baruch

#19. Point shoes are torture devices.

Natalie Portman

#20. You will only be satisfied only when you are working

Sunday Adelaja

#21. The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

Warren Buffett

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

Frances Ridley Havergal

#23. And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

Sun Tzu

#24. 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.

John Frederick Boyes

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#26. Good character isn't produced overnight; it's grown over many seasons. In the same way you sort the good apples from the bad, the marks of poor characters are just as easy to detect.

Nicole Deese

#27. I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there.

Bregje Heinen

#28. I think that less presidential interference the better.

Chuck Grassley

#29. Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Thiruvalluvar

#30. I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

George Eliot

#31. I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.

Pattie Boyd

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

J. L. B. Smith

#33. Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Anita Desai