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Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord or interpretive principles. We cannot just take things over unchanged from the world around us. We should be thinking through and living through the implications of Christ's lordship in every sphere of life.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

C is the assembly language of Tcl.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Colors speak all languages.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

Doing TV is a different kind of language.

Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.