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
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.
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.
...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived. >
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
We were pretty busy last year and we think there will be plenty going on for a while.
We have to find a way to stay in the playoff picture. But it will not be easy.
The public is concerned about coming home and not finding their houses; that's not going to happen,
It was the No. 1-selling e-book on the planet. With about 12 copies.
I see no truth whatsoever in stories of extraterrestrial visitors, crop circles, the Bermuda Triangle, or many of the other "mysteries" that permeate pop culture.
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.
That was just because he rolled his car over in a heat race,
That was a pretty good offensive game for us. Defensively, we were asleep most of the night. It seems like anytime we come into this type of game, we play down to the competition.
I was pretty happy with the heart our girls showed.