Quotes from Dan Brown

When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.

Like an ocean on fire, the red-tiled rooftops of Rome spread out before him, glowing in the scarlet sunset.

Nothing captured human interest like human tragedy

And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church attendance among the fearful.

In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?

Tuileries Gardens—Paris's own version of Central Park.

Most tourists mistranslated Jardins des Tuileries as relating to the thousands of tulips that bloomed here, but Tuileries was actually a literal reference to something far less romantic. This park had once been an enormous, polluted excavation pit from which Parisian contractors mined clay to manufacture the city's famous red roofing tiles—or tuiles.

The fog began to lift. Langdon felt a wave of relief. He hated hospitals, but they certainly beat aliens harvesting his testicles.

On the first landing, Langdon came face-to-face with a bronze bust of Masonic luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them.

darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Precision can be suffocating

Langdon was impressed. "You know Latin." "I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.

Professor Langdon?' A male student at the back raised his hand, sounding hopeful. 'Are you saying that instead of going to chapel, we should have more sex?' Langdon chuckled, not about to take the bait. From what he'd heard about Harvard parties, these kids were having more than enough sex.

He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.

A Pope usually worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, and died of exhaustion in an average of 6.3 years. The inside joke was that accepting the papacy was a cardinal's 'fastest route to heaven.

One of Langdon's Harvard colleagues—a solemn physics professor—had become so fed up with philosophy majors attending his Origins of the Universe seminar that he finally posted a sign on his classroom door. In my classroom, T > 0. For all inquiries where T = 0, please visit the Religion Department. "How about Panspermia?" Winston

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.

We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.

Fache will do what no one else dares.

Nature—in an effort to promote disorder—creates little pockets of order.

We are who we protect, what we stand up for." -- Sophie, via Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code

I call it 'Prayer for the Future.' " Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. "May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.