She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these…

I'm a very guarded person, very controlled person.

— Erika Jayne

“Hildegard von Bingen, an 11th-century nun who saw apocalyptic visions and was later canonized, had a cipher alphabet which she claimed came to her…

— David Kahn

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

— George Eliot

“I tried all the basic approaches,” he said. “Including the one those teachers used to crack the cipher he sent to the papers. No…

— Christa Faust

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

— Tony Todd

“Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing—and to know the thing is to command it.”

— Guillermo del Toro

“A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.”

— Tom Ang

“There are exceptions, for instance, the popular stream cipher RC4. •”

— Christof Paar

“The more a cipher deviates from the simple form in which one ciphertext letter invariably replaces the same plaintext letter, the harder it is…

— David Kahn

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, I struggled through the alphabet as if…

— Charles Dickens

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Frances Ridley Havergal

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“years ago one of the translators working on the original Dead Sea scrolls, Professor Schonfeld, discovered a recurring cipher in some texts. A hidden…

— Glenn Meade