Ciphers Quotations

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

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 system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

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.

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as 'functionaires', functionaries, not journalists.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.