Dan Brown Quotes & Sayings

dan brownThe televangelist began quoting verses from the Bible describing hierarchy of angels, demons, and spirits that ruled in heaven and hell. "Protect your souls from evil forces!" He warned them. "Lift your hearts in prayer! God and his angels will hear you!" He's right, Mal'akh knew. But so will the demons. — Dan Brown

Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell — Dan Brown

An unbreakable code is a mathematical impossibility! He knows that! — Dan Brown

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping. — Dan Brown

This icon is formally known as the blade, and it represents aggression and manhood. In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank." "Indeed." Teabing grinned. "The more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys. — Dan Brown

Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy. — Dan Brown

If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become ... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well. — Dan Brown

Transmogrification," Langdon said. "The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual - the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of "God-eating" - were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions. — Dan Brown

It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion - good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel. — Dan Brown

Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It — Dan Brown

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between yes and no.
Silence. — Dan Brown

Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up ... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle. — Dan Brown

Politics is a desperate business. — Dan Brown

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks — Dan Brown

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere. — Dan Brown

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors. — Dan Brown

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther — Dan Brown

The blind see what they want to see. — Dan Brown

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it. — Dan Brown

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war. — Dan Brown

Why half the schools in your country are not allowed to teach evolution. Ask yourself why the U.S. Christian Coalition is the most influential lobby against scientific progress in the world. The battle between science and religion is still raging, Mr. Langdon. It has moved from the battlefields to the boardrooms, but it is still raging. — Dan Brown

Such are the laws of nature and balance. An if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing. — Dan Brown

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics
the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus. — Dan Brown

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories ... legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands? — Dan Brown

Precision can be suffocating — Dan Brown

In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties. — Dan Brown

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. — Dan Brown

Pain is part of growing up.It's how we learn. — Dan Brown

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. — Dan Brown

Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions.
-William Pickering — Dan Brown

Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well.
Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly. — Dan Brown

Real world signore. You're in it tonight — Dan Brown

Was it an accident I saw that ... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you are ready to see it anew. — Dan Brown

Drink it, he told himself. You have nothing to fear. As was — Dan Brown

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis. — Dan Brown

Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents. Solar had proliferated before it was efficient, and people lost money. Both technologies got bad reputations and withered on the vine. — Dan Brown

Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end. — Dan Brown

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book. — Dan Brown

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot. — Dan Brown

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future. — Dan Brown

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away. — Dan Brown

Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating out of control. — Dan Brown

Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl - the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen - known as alcohol. — Dan Brown

Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed. — Dan Brown

Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. — Dan Brown

Tall and lissome, Dr. Brooks moved with the assertive gait of an athlete. Even in shapeless scrubs, she had a willowy elegance about her. Despite the absence of any makeup that Langdon could see, her complexion appeared unusually smooth, the only blemish a tiny beauty mark just above her lips. Her eyes, though a gentle brown, seemed unusually penetrating, as if they had witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age. — Dan Brown

Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. — Dan Brown

Point the way,' he was talking in metaphorical terms. This pointing-hand gesture - with its index finger and thumb extended upward - is a well-known symbol of the Ancient Mysteries, and it appears — Dan Brown

Men held powerful stations in life, and yet the initiate knew their worldly — Dan Brown

She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking — Dan Brown

Langdon was impressed. "You know Latin." "I grew up Catholic. I know sin. — Dan Brown

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster. — Dan Brown

the pale hand of an enormous albino with long white hair. — Dan Brown

In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. — Dan Brown

I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. — Dan Brown

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. — Dan Brown

Angels and demons were identical
interchangeable archetypes
all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer. — Dan Brown

Man's morality was not advancing as fast as man's science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We have never created a weapon we have not used! — Dan Brown

Any environmental biologist or statistician will tell you that humankind's best chance of long-term survival occurs with a global population of around four billion. — Dan Brown

Making. Langdon suspected, however, that the actual reason — Dan Brown

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material. — Dan Brown

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. — Dan Brown

He had also forgotten that iron brands, just like rubber stamps, never looked like their imprints. They were in reverse. Langdon had been looking at the brand's negative. — Dan Brown

God's will is your deepest desires. — Dan Brown

This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012. — Dan Brown

Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus. — Dan Brown

The live without understanding the meaning of the world is more like a stroll in the great library of books without touching — Dan Brown

The Divine Comedy. — Dan Brown

Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity. — Dan Brown

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. — Dan Brown

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed
instantly. Physicists call the process 'annihilation. — Dan Brown

Despite the headmaster's romantic claims that the origin of the cravat went back to the silk fascalia worn by Roman orators to warm their vocal cords, Langdon knew that, etymologically, "cravat" actually derived from a ruthless band of Croat mercenaries who donned knotted neckerchiefs before they stormed into battle. To this day, this ancient battle garb was donned by modern office warriors hoping to intimidate their enemies in daily boardroom battles. — Dan Brown

And an even bigger army of Catholic missionaries marched in on your heels and told the Africans that if they used the condoms, they'd all go to hell. Africa has a new environmental issue now - landfills overflowing with unused condoms. — Dan Brown

Never make a promise you cannot keep. — Dan Brown

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries ... endures for a reason. — Dan Brown

In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred. — Dan Brown

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.' — Dan Brown

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

I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.' — Dan Brown

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand. — Dan Brown

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened. — Dan Brown

It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague's wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty - quaranta in Italian - served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine. — Dan Brown

When his brain died, all of the memories
held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
in a flood of chemical reactions. — Dan Brown

What truth do these people possess? What proof, damn it! A book of ancient fables? Promises of miracles to come? — Dan Brown

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.
Angels and Demons p. 484 — Dan Brown

Media is the right arm of anarchy — Dan Brown

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.' — Dan Brown

In the words of futurist Arthur C. Clarke, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Dan Brown

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh ... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. — Dan Brown

Hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields - two different approaches to finding the same truth. — Dan Brown

Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret. — Dan Brown

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die. — Dan Brown

Find the truth. Act on it. — Dan Brown

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? — Dan Brown

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground. — Dan Brown

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species. — Dan Brown

I am a fan of the truth even if it is painfully hard to accept — Dan Brown

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. — Dan Brown

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. — Dan Brown

Langdon held her tighter. You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me. — Dan Brown