Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit. . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
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.
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
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.
We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
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, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
A man can't retire his experience.
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.
You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.
I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.
