Dan Brown Quotes

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

We are the masters of our own universe.

A little faith can do wonders.

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.

The blind see what they want to see.

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Don't spend...but mend yourself.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.

Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

‎"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

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.

My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

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!

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

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.

Nothing in Christianity is original.

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 remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

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.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

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.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

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.

One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.