Decipher Quotes

• A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

  Nina Bawden

  Writing, May, Close Friends

  Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, World

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• I think a good quarterback or a good linebacker, a good safety, even though you have a lot of bodies moving out there, it slows down for them and they can really see it. Then there are other guys that it's a lot of guys moving and they don't see anything. It's like being at a busy intersection, just cars going everywhere. The guys that can really sort it out, they see the game at a slower pace and can really sort out and decipher all that movement, which is hard. But experience certainly helps that, yes.

  Bill Belichick

  Moving, Thinking, Games

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

  Herman Melville

  Character, Men, Egypt

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2096, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

  John M. Ford

  Reality, Sometimes, Reader

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• Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Kind, Marry Me, Enough

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2012). “Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.106, Penguin

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• I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hurt, Believe, Feelings

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• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  Aaron Paul

  Actors, Rigour, Humans

  "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul discuss their cutthroat relationship on 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Glenn Whipp, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2010.

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• You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

  Emmet Fox

  Creativity, Levels, Problem

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• You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Effort, Obscurity

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.276, Modern Library

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

  George Steiner

  Significance, Translate

  George Steiner (1998). “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks

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• My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

  Dziga Vertov

  Perception, World, Way

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• Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories - and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, People, Imagination

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven". Book edited by George Plimpton, October 1, 1986.

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• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  Dan Brown

  Fall, Missing, Enlightenment

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• People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Trying, Mystery

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• Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Secret, Alphabet

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• Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Ego, Doe

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• The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.

  Timothy Leary

  Technology, Dna, World

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• I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Night, Dragons

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• We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from our brain and we could then use that to control computers.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Use, Radio

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

  Rachel Miner

  Girl, Voice, Southern

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• Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

  Robert Polidori

  Cameras, Answers

  Robert Polidori (2004). “Robert Polidori's Metropolis”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

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