Robert or Rob Harris may refer to:
People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
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
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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.
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.
For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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.
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.
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.