Origin Quotes

“IN THE BEGINNING, MAN CREATED GOD.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“humans believed that the earth was flat and ships venturing across the seas risked sailing off the edge. However, when we proved that the earth was round, the flat-earth advocates were eventually silenced. Creationists are today’s flat-earth advocates, and I would be shocked if anyone still believes in Creationism a hundred years from now.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“When life is dark, let your heart show you the way.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudí was once quoted as saying,”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Fate was a cruel and unpredictable mistress,”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.’ ”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“We are now perched on a strange cusp of history,” Edmond continued, “a time when the world feels like it’s been turned upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“el famoso ordenador de la película 2001: Una odisea en el espacio, que, según una leyenda urbana, lo habían llamado “HAL” porque eran las letras que precedían en el alfabeto a “IBM”.”
― Dan Brown, Origen

“Köves always found it ironic that humans, despite being God’s most sublime creation, were still just animals at the core, their behavior driven to a great extent by a quest for creature comforts. We comfort our physical bodies in hopes our souls will follow.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“El aire de los museos era el mismo en todas partes: una atmósfera meticulosamente filtrada para eliminar todas las partículas y oxidantes y luego humectada con agua ionizada hasta alcanzar el 45% de humedad.”
― Dan Brown, Origen

“A lo largo de la historia, las personas más peligrosas siempre habían sido los hombres de Dios…sobre todo cuando sus dioses se veían amenazados”
― Dan Brown, Origen

“Debemos estar dispuestos a renunciar a la vida que hemos planeado para poder disfrutar de la vida que nos espera. JOSEPH CAMPBELL”
― Dan Brown, Origen

“If you’ve read my books,” Langdon’s voice continued”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“this museum must celebrate the other lesson history has taught us—that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion—that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“TED Talk by digital-culture writer Kevin Kelly.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Langdon himself owned Nietzsche’s The Peacock and the Buffalo, a compilation of 275 poems”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Gaudí’s famous Barcelona Panots—”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“The Széchenyi Chain Bridge—”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“In addition,” Winston said, “Klein also composed the musical piece Monotone-Silence, in which a symphony orchestra performs a single D-major chord for a full twenty minutes.” “And people listen?” “Thousands. And the one chord is just the first movement. In the second movement, the orchestra sits motionless and performs ‘pure silence’ for twenty minutes.” “You’re joking, right?” “No, I’m quite serious. In its defense, the performance was probably not as dull as it might sound; the stage also included three naked women, slathered in blue paint, rolling around on giant canvases.” Although Langdon had devoted the better part of his career to studying art, it troubled him that he had never quite learned how to appreciate the art world’s more avant-garde offerings. The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him. “I mean no disrespect, Winston, but I’ve got to tell you, I often find it hard to know when something is ‘modern art’ and when something is just plain bizarre.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“the Spanish coat of arms—a crest flanked by the Pillars of Hercules and the ancient motto PLUS ULTRA, meaning “further beyond.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“entropy—”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“wearied”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“this square’s “magic constant” of thirty-three was in fact a hidden tribute to the Freemasons’ pagan reverence for the Great Architect of the Universe—an all-encompassing deity whose secrets were allegedly revealed to those who reached the brotherhood’s thirty-third degree.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Langdon was impressed with the description and wished his own students had as clear an understanding of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“—Sólo hay una oportunidad de causar una primera impresión”
― Dan Brown, Origen

“Todo el mundo respeta a aquellos que se rigen por un código”.”
― Dan Brown, Origen