Father Xavier Quotes

#1. Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

Geoffrey Ward

#2. Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

Zaha Hadid

#3. My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

Xavier Becerra

#4. The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

Xavier Dolan

#5. My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Zubin Mehta

#6. Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.

Cornelius Van Til

#7. Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.

Bryant McGill

#8. Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

Marya Mannes

#9. Even though it is black, black as Egypt's night, the customer is always right

Andrew Ewing

#10. At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

Patrick DeWitt

#11. I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

Xavier Rudd

#12. A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

Nhat Hanh

#13. It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

Xavier Dolan

#14. Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

Nalini Singh

#15. Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#16. Xavier, you have given me more grey hairs than all my sons put together.' Saul frowned, then corrected himself. 'To be fair, you and Zed. Just try not to add to them tonight.

Joss Stirling

#17. How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?

Spencer W. Kimball

#18. A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

Frank Miller

#19. Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. Sitting

Haruki Murakami