Famous quotes containing the words xavier, books and/or french:
“I refuse to say another word to you. You’re just contemptible and impudent enough to publish it.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray)
“The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one’s mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“This has been illustrated copiously each day with photographs taken by the author, reproduced by means of cuts such as only French newspaper-engravers can make, presumably etched on pieces of bread.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)