Famous quotes containing the words xavier, books and/or french:
“If you’re so helpless you can’t find the water you’ve no business in it.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray)
“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“The third day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Three French hens,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 8–10)