Quotes About Lingua Franca

#1. 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

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

Raquel Cepeda

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

William Golding

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

Robert Ludlum

#6. Recognize how truly blessed you are. Take time to count your blessings and write them down. To make your dreams come true you must already be soaking in the very presence you wish to create.

Brandon Bays

#7. You don't tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

Mikhail Bakunin

#9. EZE21.27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

Anonymous

#10. I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

Jamie Oliver

#11. On 7 October 1909 E. D.Morel, head of the Congo Reform Association,wrote A. Conan Doyle, a member, that Conrad's story [Heart of Darkness] was the "most powerful thing ever writtenon the subject.

Hunt Hawkins

#12. Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life
he is a man indeed!

H. P. Blavatsky