Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.
It's funny - I was a big fan of 'The Sopranos.' It became kind of a threat to 'The X-Files' in a way because they could play with language, character, and story in ways that we never could because of the limitations of network television.
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line to the brain that says 'This is what I do.' The brain builds a network of connections, a network of neurons that have a particular role in that function.
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
Language is a nice way to remember things.
The whole point of creativity is that it has no boundaries of language, region, and age.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
Years ago, I went to Brazil and fell in love with it. I really like the music, samba, bossa nova, the language and the people.
Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse.
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
