What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them! Robert Harris More Quotes by Robert Harris More Quotes From Robert Harris Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them. Robert Harris spidersvampiresoul My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like. Robert Harris jokesableregret [Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products. Robert Harris boxersserioustools I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. Robert Harris zenithanxietythinking Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree. Robert Harris goes-onwaythinking Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours. Robert Harris fourwritingtrying Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight. Robert Harris tonightworryart What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason Robert Harris choicesdecisionleadership One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary. Robert Harris scaryleaderthinking Orwell has always been a huge influence on me. Robert Harris influencehuge It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done. Robert Harris donerealwriting It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. Robert Harris I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time. Robert Harris crazylongthinking Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. Robert Harris growing-upmissingkids If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. Robert Harris portraitsrichwould-be Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism. Robert Harris issuesyearsthinking To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship. Robert Harris girlfriendsidesyears Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic. Robert Harris work-outtogetherhistory History is too important to be left to the historians. Robert Harris historianleftimportant Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? Robert Harris namesdoemen
