Lingua Quotes

#1. Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

Raquel Cepeda

#2. I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn.
[Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry?

Tony D'Souza

#4. La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back!

Wally Lamb

#5. I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

William Golding

#6. It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

Robert Ludlum

#7. In the old tongue which had once been his world's lingua franca, most words, like khef and ka, had many meanings. The word char, however - char as in Charlie the Choo-Choo - had only one. Char meant death.

Stephen King

#8. It was really quite flattering to think that minor damage to my skull could cause such a display of hydrotechnics, but at the same time it left me slightly uneasy about what my response ought to be.

Jeff Lindsay

#9. Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Robert Frost

#10. Today education has become a training ground for competition.

Parker J. Palmer

#11. There's something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

Rick Moody

#12. Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. The inclusion of slope style in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.

Nick Goepper

#14. She simply knew she was about to lose something valuable, and like anybody else, she wanted to take the next logical step to make it her own: She wanted to fuck it.

Nell Zink

#15. In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you ... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

Alejandro Amenabar

#16. Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

Napoleon Hill

#17. The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi