Quotes from Dan Brown

Rather than having to draw every single frame by hand—which can be likened here to modeling every tiny step in the evolutionary process—artists nowadays can draw a few of the key frames…and then ask the computer to take its best guess at the intermediary steps and fill in the rest of the evolution. "That's tweening

For most of his life, he had been the one in charge, the one giving orders

it should come as no surprise to us that the greatest invention the human mind has created is the computer—a machine designed specifically to help us create order out of chaos. In fact, the word in Spanish for computer is ordenador—quite literally, 'that which creates order.'

prognostication

inspiring their foot soldiers to commit acts of violence. It takes only one powerful dark soul to wreak havoc in the world by inspiring spiritual intolerance, nationalism, or loathing in the minds of the vulnerable.

Dios es la energía que fluye a través de la sinapsis de nuestro sistema nervioso y las cavidades de nuestros corazones! ¡Dios está en todas las cosas!

bibliophile

No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.

Trish would have said impossible, but the I-word was banned here. Katherine considered it a dangerous mind-set in a field that often transformed preconceived falsehoods into confirmed truths.

may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

Leonardo da Vinci had gained his expertise in the human form by exhuming corpses and dissecting their musculature.

The primordial soup.

dos tipos de religiones: los credos dogmáticos y oscuros, que reprimen todo pensamiento original… y las religiones luminosas y expansivas, que fomentan la introspección y la creatividad.

The most vicious terrorists are not the people who build the bombs, but the influential leaders who fuel hatred among desperate masses, inspiring their foot soldiers to commit acts of violence. It takes only one powerful dark soul to wreak havoc in the world by inspiring spiritual intolerance, nationalism, or loathing in the minds of the vulnerable.

Spanish for computer is ordenador—quite literally, 'that which creates order.

A little extra caffeine this morning. It's gonna be a long day!!

The left brain was analytical and verbal, while the right brain was intuitive and "preferred" pictures to words.

As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?'... By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Finally, he pulled out Edmond's cell phone and reread the Winston Churchill screen-saver quote about shaping one's own legacy. History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

The live without understanding the meaning of the world is more like a stroll in the great library of books without touching

Los que matan con la espada, por la espada perecerán".

glucocorticoid treatments that had destroyed her reproductive

Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures.

The Masons are not a secret society... they are a society with secrets