Top 75 Langdon's Quotes
#1. Zobrist yesterday afternoon." "We most certainly did - " Sienna placed a restraining hand on Langdon's arm. "Robert ... " She gave a grim sigh. "Six
Dan Brown
#2. By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.
John Langdon-Davies
#3. There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.
John Langdon-Davies
#4. 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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#5. Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#6. Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.
Langdon Winner
#8. Symbols," Langdon said, "in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.
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#9. Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#10. 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
#11. Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
John Langdon
#13. Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#14. A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#15. Langdon held her tighter. You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.
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#16. No good deed goes unpunished.' Langdon
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#17. Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What ... happened?"
Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
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#18. As the soul becomes enlightened ... it takes the beautiful shape of the dove. Langdon
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#19. Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"
Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.
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#20. Neutrinos have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic!
Robert to Vittoria
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#21. I've heard of denial," Langdon quipped blithely, "but I don't think it exists.
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#23. When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palaeozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.
Langdon Smith
#24. 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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#26. Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?
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#27. As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.
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#28. Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#29. Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.
Langdon Winner
#30. Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.
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#31. I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#32. In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.
Langdon Winner
#33. Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'.
Virginia Woolf
#34. If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
#35. Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.
Hal Holbrook
#36. Langdon knew she was right and reluctantly made his way around the balcony, hugging the wall as he went.
Dan Brown
#37. The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#38. If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
Dan Brown
#39. Compassion is a universal language. - Robert Langdon
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#40. It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#41. Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.
Dan Brown
#42. My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#43. I had come to Boyne City because I have always been drawn to nature's secrets more than to, say Hollywood's secrets or the secrets of Wall Street hedge-fund managers. Nature is real. It exists beyond our ability to create it or even mediate it.
Langdon Cook
#44. The carved stone sign in front read Building C.
Imaginative title, Langdon thought
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#45. Said, leaving Langdon and moving several yards to a portable table covered with investigation
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#46. On the back of the Trike, Langdon looked ahead and immediately shared her apprehension.
Dan Brown
#48. If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.
Dana Gould
#49. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
Dan Brown
#50. I'm sure you despise me," she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes.
"Despise you?!" Langdon exclaimed. "I don't have the slightest idea who you are! All you've done is lie to me!"
"I know," she said softly. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to do the right thing.
Dan Brown
#51. 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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#52. He saw blurry white forms. Why they all are wearing white? Langdon decided he was either in an asylum or heaven. From the burning in his throat, Langdon decided it could not be heaven.
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#54. 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.
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#55. While lying in traction in the hospital the next day, I informed Jerry that he could promptly take his cake, hideous football photo and smelly socks and fuck off out of my apartment.
Kate Langdon
#56. Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#57. Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon
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#58. Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.
Melanie Dickerson
#59. 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.
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#61. 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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#62. ABC," one woman offered. "Assure, Believe, Convert." "Correct," Langdon said. "Religions assure salvation; religions believe in a perecise theology; and religions convert nonbelievers.
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#63. Ironically, this same code had been a plot twist in a mediocre thriller Langdon had read years ago.
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#64. Making. Langdon suspected, however, that the actual reason
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#65. -flashed Langdon the thumbs-up
sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic
symbol for masculine virility.
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#66. 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
#67. Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
#68. I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#69. Langdon was impressed. "You know Latin." "I grew up Catholic. I know sin.
Dan Brown
#70. You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.
Melanie Dickerson
#71. Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex? - Robert Langdon
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#72. In ancient mythology," Langdon offered, "a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.
Dan Brown
#74. If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960,
we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost
as little as air
John Langdon-Davies
#75. As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
John Langdon
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