Codes Quotes
130 quotes by 125 authors
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Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.
— Dave Mustaine
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Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are…
— Wallace Stegner
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A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer…
— Neil Gaiman
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And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three…
— Rob Thurman
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If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity.…
— Boyd Rice
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Magic is the cheat codes for the world.
— Warren Ellis
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If I should die,†Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures…
— Amish Tripathi
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I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when…
— Elizabeth Scott
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If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death…
— Frank Beddor
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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated…
— Aimee Bender
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Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are…
— George Dyson
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze…
— Raf Simons
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The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the…
— Sheri Fink
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Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against…
— Seth Shostak
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Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.
— Charles Duhigg
Who Wrote These Codes Quotes
125 authors contributed a total of 130 Codes Quotes, led by these top contributors: