Dan Brown
Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 52 languages around the world with 200 million copies in print.
In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise.”
The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing.
Brown is currently at work on a new book as well as the Columbia Pictures film version of his most recent novel.
“There's just no substitute for the truth.”
Dan Brown
“Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.”
Dan Brown
“When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.”
Dan Brown
“In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.”
Dan Brown
“Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.”
Dan Brown
“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
Dan Brown
“Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.”
Dan Brown
“One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.”
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“Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: You are confused because the Bible describes God as an omnipotent and benevolent deity.Lieutenant Chatrand: Exactly.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.Lieutenant Chatrand: I understand the concept. It’s just... there seems to be a contradiction.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness...Lieutenant Chatrand: Exactly! Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and has the power to change our situation, He would prevent our pain, wouldn’t he?Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Would He?Lieutenant Chatrand: Well... if God Loves us, and He can protect us, He would have to. It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Do you have children?Lieutenant Chatrand: No, signore.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Imagine you had an eight-year-old son... would you love him?Lieutenant Chatrand: Of course.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Would you let him skateboard?Lieutenant Chatrand: Yeah, I guess. Sure I’d let him skateboard, but I’d tell him to be careful.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: So as this child’s father, you would give him some basic, good advice and then let him go off and make his own mistakes?Lieutenant Chatrand: I wouldn’t run behind him and mollycoddle him if that’s what you mean.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: But what if he fell and skinned his knee?Lieutenant Chatrand: He would learn to be more careful.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child’s pain, you would choose to show you love by letting him learn his own lessons?Lieutenant Chatrand: Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It’s how we learn.Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Exactly.”
Dan Brown
“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
Dan Brown
“الخوف يشلّ أكثر من أي أداة حرب أخرى.”
Dan Brown
“Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.”
Dan Brown
“Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.”
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“Yo no he escrito un libro sobre verdades y mentiras. Simplemente, un libro que ha despertado la curiosidad de la gente en el pasado”
Dan Brown
“These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail.""I was referring to the Bible."Faukman cringed. "I knew that.”
Dan Brown
“My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.”
Dan Brown
“Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?”
Dan Brown
“Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.”
Dan Brown
“Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.”
Dan Brown
“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
Dan Brown
“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
Dan Brown
“Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
Dan Brown
“Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way.”
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“Founded by President Truman at 12:01 A.M. on November 4, 1952, the NSA had been the most clandestine intelligence agency in the world for almost fifty years. The NSA's seven-page inception doctrine laid out a very concise agenda: to protect U.S. government communications and to intercept the communications of foreign powers."The roof of the NSA's main operations building was littered with over five hundred antennas, including two large radomes that looked like enormous golf balls. The building itself was mammoth--over two million square feet, twice the size of CIA headquarters. Inside were eight million feet of telephone wire and eighty thousand square feet of permanently sealed windows.”
Dan Brown
“Sofi pogleda Langdona, ne znajuci da li se vratila kroz vreme ili je krocila u ludnicu”
Dan Brown
“I dok je Gete opisivao arhitekturu kao zamrznutu muziku, kriticari su ovu piramidu opisivali kao skripanje noktiju po skolskoj tabli”
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