Dan Brown
Dan Brown
Daniel "Dan" Brownis an American author of thriller fiction who is best known for the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code. Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been or are being adapted...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 June 1964
CityExeter, NH
CountryUnited States of America
Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.
This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
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.
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.
So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.
Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.
Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther
Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks
It is said that in death, all things become clear.
She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.
You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.