Dan Brown Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
-
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
-
Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
-
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
-
The devil made me do it.
-
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
-
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
-
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
-
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
-
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
-
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
-
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
-
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
-
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
-
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?
-
I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.
-
Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
-
I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.
-
I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
