J. L. B. Smith quotes

“Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.”
-- J. L. B. Smith

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“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.”

“We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1874). “Under the Surface”, p.11

“Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.”

“Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.”

“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.”

“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.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58

“I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.”

“Never ran away for the sake of scars.”

“Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.”

“I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com