Ciphers Quotes

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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
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
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
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
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man — Thomas Carlyle
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the… — Frederic Chopin
Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. — Lady Frieda Harris
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
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.
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
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
Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. — J. L. B. Smith
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
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
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits. — Horace
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. — Frederic Chopin
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,… — Jeremy Denk

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