Top 100 Quotes About Decipher
#1. Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
John M. Ford
#2. Zerbrowski said, I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#3. I close my eyes, trying to decipher how it feels.
Emery Lord
#4. What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.
Marcel Proust
#5. I wonder what I would find if I could go back and decipher the layers, if it were possible to delve into my past that way, but realize that, even if it were possible, it would be futile.
S.J. Watson
#6. In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which, in our rare moments of grace, we are able to decipher a small fragment.
Arthur Koestler
#7. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears. We
Paulo Coelho
#8. There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
Gerry Abbey
#9. Listen with your eyes because here you cannot decipher what is said out of the effort of mouths.
Myung Mi Kim
#10. When people spoke to him, he heard less and less of what they were saying, and more and more of what they were not. He learned to decipher the meaning of certain silences, which is like solving a tough case without any clues, with only intuition.
Nicole Krauss
#11. It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it was their fault, not yours.
David Sedaris
#12. I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.
Pras Michel
#13. Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.
Marcel Proust
#14. Everyone had their own agenda. She just had to stop reacting emotionally: decipher the real motives for their behaviour without taking every word as a personal attack.
Abby McDonald
#15. My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.
Dziga Vertov
#16. People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.
Jim Sterne
#17. Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
Robert Black
#18. I hadn't learned to decipher the mysterious ways of the undermind, How occasionally it erupts into an avalanche of clarity, a sheet of snow shearing off the roof and thundering to the ground, leaving the shingles exposed, knowledge issuing a messenger to announce its arrival.
Kate Bolick
#19. Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one ...
Iannis Xenakis
#20. I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Carl Lewis
#21. So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher,
And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer
Q-Tip
#22. If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.
James Dashner
#23. When you cant decipher the seasons, you are unable to know your destiny.
Paul Gitwaza
#24. Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
Nina Easton
#25. While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is the power of the Primal Cause to decipher what is perceived from the ordered plane and conceive judgments through thoughts from the unordered.
Dew Platt
#26. Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.
Hilary Grossman
#27. My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mother was always just trying to decipher him.
Jodi Picoult
#28. Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
John Crowley
#29. About potentials, ,decipher(decode),discern, decide and determine what they are
Ikechukwu Joseph
#30. I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.
Shannon Lynette
#31. There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.
Herman Melville
#32. I can't get to know you" means "I shall never know what you really think of me." I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me.
Roland Barthes
#33. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.
Allen Ginsberg
#36. To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
George Steiner
#37. Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
Walter Benjamin
#38. I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?
Marc Jacobs
#39. Love is not always revered
Sensitivity is not universal
Emotions are difficult to decipher
The spotlight never shines
If you hide behind those shadows
Balroop Singh
#40. The future was painted on a canvas of infinite reach; it entailed too many connections and joinings. Change one and you changed others. No amount of insight would enable a single individual to decipher it all.
Terry Brooks
#41. It is Davy's job to decipher and transmit information into code. Sexual language is like that, Freddie thinks. Everything coded. Everything stripped down to elementary dots and dashes.
Glenn Haybittle
#42. Inability to decipher words came from neglect, but Eve knew better.
Suzanne Brockmann
#43. How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
Cornelia Funke
#44. I had forgotten this - the thrill of touching someone new, trying to decipher the meaning of each tiny movement.
Anna Michels
#45. Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#46. Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.
Robert Polidori
#47. I like that he is complex, that the final result of all his pieces will be something unique and hard to solve. I have no right to wish it, and no hope the wish can ever be granted, but I still long to be the one to decipher him.
Amy Engel
#49. A look came into his dark eyes, a new expression she could'nt decipher. He stroked her lips with his thumb and stared at her like he had never seen her before.
Thea Harrison
#50. People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.
Paulo Coelho
#51. At times poems can be like riddles, too difficult to decipher or comprehend. But how else does one come to understand what can only be felt but not said?
Raneem Kayyali
#52. When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all!
Charles R. Swindoll
#53. I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.
Rachel Miner
#54. I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.
Steve Vai
#55. Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.
Michael Ignatieff
#56. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies. One must learn to be discerning with one's own thoughts. We must be able to decipher the truth versus the lies of our minds. Otherwise, we become enslaved to the shackles of struggle we place on our own ankles.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#57. The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.
William Buckland
#58. I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#59. Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Jerry Saltz
#60. Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that - in many realms, not just sex - we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.
Robert Wright
#61. The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.
Megan Shepherd
#62. Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears."
A Novella, The Coffee and The Cola, Published 2016.
Kapil Muzumdar
#63. It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues.
Vladimir Nabokov
#64. People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?
Gunter Grass
#65. I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.
Paulo Coelho
#66. We get so many societal messages about what the Right Dream is that it gets hard to decipher what our own dream is.
Danielle LaPorte
#67. Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.
John Eldredge
#68. I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn't find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn't decipher.
Gloria Whelan
#69. I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#70. It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001
Pippa DaCosta
#71. A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.
Mark McMorris
#72. I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.
Lauren Oliver
#73. As difficult as it was to decipher Two's expression when she was on the ground, it was next to impossible when she was at her ease hanging upside down in her office.
Susan R. Matthews
#74. There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.
Paulo Coelho
#75. No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?
Ken Kesey
#76. I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.
Romesh Gunesekera
#77. Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks ... It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there, powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.
Frederick Buechner
#78. Females in general are embodiment of alluring mysteries that is beyond mortal capacity to decipher or understand.
Auliq Ice
#79. The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
Margaret Atwood
#80. Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
Michael Specter
#81. Understand, by saying 'God,' I am merely using 'God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher.
Donna Tartt
#82. I decipher the brewing machine because I am, after all, trained to save lives, and this is a life-or-death situation. We need coffee. Now. Or heads will roll.
Lisa Wingate
#83. Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.
Ruby Wax
#84. You lack the capacity to decipher this particular puzzle.
Isaac Asimov
#85. I wandered for many years, so long that I forgot that I possessed a soul.48 Where were you all this time? Which Beyond sheltered you and gave you sanctuary? Oh, that you must speak through me, that my speech and I are your symbol and expression! How should I decipher you?
C. G. Jung
#86. Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
Augustus William Hare
#87. From the outside looking in, trying to decipher Google's search algorithms is like reading tea leaves in a toilet bowl ... as it's flushing. With the lights off.
Guy Kawasaki
#88. As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.
Gregory Stock
#89. Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.
Isabel Allende
#90. I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.
Spike Jonze
#91. Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#92. So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Paul Ricoeur
#93. Life was a strange circle. She tried not to decipher it, but rather to accept it as it came.
Lorraine Heath
#94. You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed.
John Irving
#95. My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.
Max Born
#96. Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.
Clive James
#97. Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.
Deborah Moggach
#98. We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.
Georges Bataille
#99. My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.
Dawna Markova
#100. Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.
David Ogilvy
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