Top 100 Dan Brown Quotes
#1. Cathedral terminology was like stage directions - totally counterintuitive.
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#2. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
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#3. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.
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#6. Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret.
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#7. On the back of the Trike, Langdon looked ahead and immediately shared her apprehension.
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#9. Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.
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#10. Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.
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#11. Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine - they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake.
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#12. I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
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#13. The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
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#14. ... Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.
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#15. Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.
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#16. You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.
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#17. The carved stone sign in front read Building C.
Imaginative title, Langdon thought
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#18. 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.'
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#19. Appeared to be in her early thirties. She wore blue scrubs
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#20. An unbreakable code is a mathematical impossibility! He knows that!
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#21. Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.
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#22. Men in power are always interested in greater power.
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#23. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.
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#24. Hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields - two different approaches to finding the same truth.
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#25. When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
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#26. Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.
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#27. Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be s God!
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#28. As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts..
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#29. PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!
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#30. God is found in the collection of Many ... rather than in the One.
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#31. When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown ... and pray for an exit
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#32. Your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.
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#33. If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed
instantly. Physicists call the process 'annihilation.
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#34. I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.
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#35. It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.
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#36. Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise?
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#37. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!
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#38. Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.
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#39. Faukman hung up the phone, shaking his head in disbelief. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts. Inside
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#40. Religion has always persecuted science.
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#41. There's just no substitute for the truth.
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#42. Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
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#43. I'm a fan of the truth ... even if it's painfully hard to accept.
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#44. Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
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#45. When it comes to passion, I'm not sure you have any choice but to follow.
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#46. Proof, she knew, was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made. Remove all the base assumptions. Start again.
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#47. Robert? You wake me up and you charge me for it?
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#48. Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.
Angels and Demons p. 484
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#49. Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
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#50. I would have thought you'd import an English staff?"
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.
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#51. Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
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#52. arcane knowledge capable of imbuing humans with mystical,
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#53. Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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#54. The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.
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#55. Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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#56. All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God ...
Never realizing that God is waiting for us.
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#57. 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?
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#58. For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground ... forced me to live in purgatory ... laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.
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#59. The truth, however, was stranger still.
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#60. Inner calm is critical to persuasive acting.
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#61. Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries ... endures for a reason.
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#62. I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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#63. Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.
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#64. Christians like faces, Muslims like words.
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#65. Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.
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#66. When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world.
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#67. What's the matter?' She immediately started laughin. 'What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!
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#68. Zobrist may have been a lunatic, he thought, but he certainly had a sophisticated grasp of Dante.
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#70. The truth only be glimpsed through the eye of the death.
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#71. Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
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#72. Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.
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#73. 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.
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#74. The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination ... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
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#75. A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I can't wait for this to come out in October!
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#78. One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.
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#79. The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
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#80. Remember tonight ... for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri
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#81. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.
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#82. Geneva, Switzerland..i thought it was only two hours
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#83. One does not go to Vatican City with one's ass hanging out.
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#84. Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.
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#85. Politics is a desperate business.
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#86. emotionless tone hurting as much as the news
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#87. I want to believe," he heard himself say.
Victoria's reply carried no judgement or challenge. "So why don't you?"
He chuckled. "Well, it's not that easy. Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles, immaculate conceptions an divine interventions
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#88. The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.
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#89. Science can heal, or science can kill. It depends on the soul of the man using the science.
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#90. Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them.
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#91. There is a fine line between insanity and genius.
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#92. Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?
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#94. Open your mind my friends, we fear what we do not understand.
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#95. Never disperse your focus unless absolutely necessary. Face one adversary at a time.
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#96. Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?'
'Don't you trust me?'
'Trust you? I barely know you.'
Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds.
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#97. Around their necks hung ceremonial jewels that glistened like
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#98. A little faith can do wonders...
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#99. We were at sixty thousand feet. You're thirty percent lighter up
there.
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#100. In the words of Lynne McTaggart: Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.
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