Franca Quotes & Sayings

Do not flatter yourself. You cannot tempt me. — Franca Storm

Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. My heart belongs to someone. — Terry Goodkind

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

Giving back is the new luxury, — Franca Sozzani

Cora, you can turn around now. Your virgin eyes won't be offended any longer. — Franca Storm

Nice moves, darlin'." He gripped her hands gently and pried them off his shirt. "You're getting stronger. That almost hurt. — Franca Storm

I thought a wolf's mindset was just to take?"
"I am not just looking at you through the eyes of a wolf, Cora. I am looking at you through the eyes of your mate. It is the only thing that has allowed me to hold back with you. The pull between us is intense. — Franca Storm

Luca chuckled. "You will learn to trust me, princess."
Ryan scoffed as he also brushed past Luca and walked into the library. "Like hell she will. — Franca Storm

J, I think I know how to fuck my wife. And, believe me, she doesn't like gentle. She's more of a rip-my-clothes-off-with-your-teeth-and-fuck-me-hard-and-dirty kind of woman. — Franca Storm

The stench of wolf - especially an Alpha - is very difficult to get out.
"Then you should keep your distance," she shot back. — Franca Storm

The name Urdu, by which this language is usually known, is said to be of Turkish origin, and means literally "camp." But the Moghuls of India first introduced it in the precincts of the Imperial camp; so that as Urdu-i-muali (High or Supreme Camp) came to be a synonym for new Dehli after Shahjahan had made it his permanent capital, so Urdu-ki-zaban meant the lingua franca spoken at Dehli. — H.G. Keene

You're calling out the wolf, darlin'. — Franca Storm

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

One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces. — Joseph Campbell

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used. — Russell Baker

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca. — Raquel Cepeda

Sounds like the effect of wolf's blood to me," he said, winking at her.
"You think?"
"Attacking without thinking? Just reacting instantly? Yeah, that's wolf mentality. — Franca Storm

Bloggers now have no concept. They are given things; they put them on, take pictures, and then just disappear from sight. Who cares? — Franca Sozzani

Don't interfere. Go on ahead to the compound."
Cora's eyes narrowed. "Is that an order?"
Ryan heaved a sigh. "A suggestion, but I can make it an order if you prefer. — Franca Storm

You're easy to love, Nicki. So damn easy to love. I can't get enough of you. — Franca Storm

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language
this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible
despite its barbaric accretions ... or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca. — Robert Ludlum

Planning to stay on your leash, wolf? Or would you rather let loose? — Franca Storm

He regretted his surliness when she had refused. She was the only person he'd met in his adult life who had any understanding of his past, the only woman he wanted to remain connected to. He didn't want to leave it up to chance to find her again, didn't want to share her with another man. That last day in Volterra he had searched for a way to tell her these things. She had not accused him, as Franca had, of his own cowardice, of his inability to form attachments. But Hema's refusal to accuse him made him feel worse, and without her he was lost. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In 'Curvy,' they are superhappy with their sizes. We help them dress fashionably. We say: It's pointless for you to buy leggings, take this because this will look good on you. We help them choose. We don't talk about diets because they don't want to be on a diet, but it's not a ghetto. Why should these women slim down? Many of the women who have a few extra kilos are especially beautiful and also more feminine. — Franca Sozzani

My view is not just to find young talents, it's to support them too. — Franca Sozzani

Throughout one's life, time addresses man in a variety of languages: in those of innocence, love, faith, experience, history, fatigue, cynicism, guilt, decay, etc. Of those, the language of love is clearly the lingua franca. Its vocabulary absorbs all the other tongues, and its utterance gratifies a subject, however inanimate it may be. Also, by being thus uttered, a subject acquires an ecclesiastical, almost sacred denomination, echoing both the way we perceive the objects of our passions and the Good Book's suggestion as to what God is. Love is essentially an attitude maintained by the infinite toward the finite. The reversal constitutes either faith or poetry. Akhmatova's — Joseph Brodsky

Luca scoffed. "Wolves never change."
"Excuse me?" Ryan demanded.
"All about instant gratification. Reacting purely on instinct and engaging in mindless acts of violence and sex."
"Like vampires are any different. Oh, accept for the fact that my boys don't kill those they fuck. Vampires get off on having a life in their hands, the power of draining their victim's life force. Wolves revel in life. You are death and you breed only death. — Franca Storm

By the time they passed Malindi in the early-afternoon hours, Munroe could feel the syntax, the grammar, the resonance of patterns of the country's lingua franca beginning to form, could feel the tension relaxing now that the key to the aural lock had been handed over, and soon enough, over time and of its own accord, her ability to speak would grow and she would rapidly become more and more fluent.

This same poisonous gift - this savant like ability to visualize the way the words configured into shapes - had defined her life and turned her into what she was now. Without language, there would have been no gunrunning, without gunrunning no nights in the jungle fighting off the worst of human predators, without the nights, no instinct of self-preservation and the speed and the need to kill that had marked her every moment, waking and sleeping, since. — Taylor Stevens

Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose. — Jose Marti

I don't like fashionistas. They only wear the brand. You want to become a fashionista? Easy! Spend money. — Franca Sozzani

I bow to no one. — Franca Storm

Just like your father, Ryan - blunt, abrasive and cursing like a sailor." He moved closer until he was just inches from him and added with a wink, "Everything I liked about him. — Franca Storm