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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

Body language is more powerful than words.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate.

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

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.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

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

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

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

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.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Colors speak all languages.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

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

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.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

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.

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

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