Cipher Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less…
— Bernard Baruch
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain…
— Michael Caine
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
— Samuel Johnson
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
— Thomas Carlyle
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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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…
— Alexander Grothendieck
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The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
— Lady Frieda Harris
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I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher…
— Bill W.
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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.
— J. L. B. Smith
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It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher.…
— B R Ambedkar
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I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the…
— Walt Whitman
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by…
— Oscar Wilde
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to…
— Queen Latifah
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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…
— Steven Pinker
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It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than…
— Anita Diament
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Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then…
— Carlo Collodi
Who Wrote These Cipher Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Cipher Quotes as follows: