Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Dan Brown

Quote by Dan Brown

Work

Angels & Demons

In this gripping thriller, a young professor is drawn into a dangerous world of secret societies and ancient rituals. As he uncovers a plot that threatens the world's stability, he must navigate a labyrinth of intrigue and deception to prevent a global disaster. The story delves into the history of the Illuminati and the CERN particle collider, offering a blend of suspense and intellectual intrigue. more

Author

Dan Brown
Dan Brown

Dan Brown is a renowned American author, known for his suspense novels. His works often revolve around themes such as religion, symbolism, and mysticism. Brown's representative works include 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels & Demons', which have achieved great success worldwide. more

You May Also Like

“Mischel’s next step made his studies iconic — he tracked the kids forward, seeing if marshmallow wait time predicted anything about their adulthoods . [...] Five-year-old champs at marshmallow patience averaged higher SAT scores in high school (compared with those who couldn’t wait). [...] Forty years post-marshmallow, they excelled at frontal function, had more PFC [Prefrontal cortex] activation during a frontal task, and had lower BMIs. A gazillion-dollar brain scanner doesn’t hold more predictive power than one marshmallow.”

ChildrenRestraintDelayed GratificationMarshmallowsBmi
Author:Robert M. Sapolsky
Create image

“I live here on the Prade Ranch alone-already years beyond the age my mother was when she returned to the ranch-to the particular elements of the earth: soil, water, carbon sky. You can rot or you can burn but either way, if you're lucky, a place will shape and cut and bend you, will strengthen you and weaken you. You trade your life for the privilege of this experience-the joy of a place, the joy of blood family; the joy of knowledge gotten by listening and observing. For most of us, we get stronger slowly, and then get weaker slowly, with our cycles sometimes in synchrony with the land's health, though other times independent of its larger cycles. We watch and listen and notice as the land, the place -life- begins to summon its due from us. It's so subtle...a trace of energy departing here, a trace of impulse missing there. You find yourself as you have always been, square in the middle of the metamorphosis, constantly living and dying: becoming weaker in your strength, finally. Perhaps you notice the soil, the rocks, or the river, taking back some of that which it has loaned to you; or perhaps you see the regeneration occurring in your daughter, if you have one, as she walks around, growing stonger. And you feel for the fir time a sweet absence...”

LifeNatureAgingGrowing OldTime PassingGrowing OlderPassage Of TimeMaturingThe Land
Author:Rick Bass
Create image