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
If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.
God's will is your deepest desires.
Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.
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.
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.
Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.
Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.
the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
The truth, however, was stranger still.
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.