Ciphered Quotes & Sayings

You need a quiet place where you can find someone who will listen, someone who will make you feel less like a mistake in a universe intended for assholes and Marines. — Christopher Rice

Words fall out of the sky like leaves, girl. Grab a couple and write 'em down. — Sharon M. Draper

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs. — T. J. Miller

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth
from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you. — Jodi Picoult

Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had. — Abraham Verghese

Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing - and to know the thing is to command it. — Guillermo Del Toro

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida

People need foundation myths, some imprint of year zero, a bolt that secures the scaffolding that in turn holds fast the entire architecture of reality, of time: memory-chambers and oblivion-cellars, walls between eras, hallways that sweep us on towards the end-days and the coming whatever-it-is. We see things shroudedly, as through a veil, an over-pixellated screen. When the shapeless plasma takes on form and resolution, like a fish approaching us through murky waters or an image looming into view from noxious liquid in a darkroom, when it begins to coalesce into a figure that's discernible, if ciphered, we can say: This is it, stirring, looming even if it isn't really, if it's all just ink-blots. — Tom McCarthy

I realized that I love him pure and simple. It's not a matter of logic or function. It's a matter of my heart. — T.J. Klune

I'm not what you want, Sylvie, I get that because it's the same for you as it is for me. I'm not what you want 'cause I'm what you need. — Kristen Ashley

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you. — Bob Riley

We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Time partially reconciles us to anything. — Charles Lamb

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. — Linda Ronstadt

He wanted to talk about her-he was full of her-but he was telling a fine line here.He and Terry were men of the world and men of the world didn't moon over their woman. — T.C. Boyle

I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels. — Olga Kurylenko

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible. — Cameron Russell