Quotes About Robert Harris

Thus the thermal energy released during the A.D. 79 eruption would have been roughly 2 x 1018 joules—or about 100,000 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Gratitude, he said, quoting Stalin, is a dog's disease.

Violence crackled around him in the dry air, like static electricity

church that he guessed must have stood square on this land for at least a thousand years; more likely fifteen hundred. Wrapped

It was not quite seven and Berlin was alive with possibilities the day had yet to dull.

Hitler has always had the capacity to reflect whatever phobia afflicts the person who stares at him

But the point is, it won't pass. You can't isolate it from the rest. It's there in the mix. And if the anti-Semitism is evil, it's all evil Because if they're capable of that, they're capable of anything.

I wouldn't have guessed you were a smoker', I said. 'I only ever allow myself one. And then only at times of great stress or great contentment'. 'Which is this?' 'Very funny.

ideal state might look like: "Who could object to that?" The answer, I

Needless to say, it passed, for what group of voters ever refused to levy a tax on someone else, especially if it benefited themselves?

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.

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.