Mandarin Chinese Quotes

#1. Polish has developed unimpeded; someone put their foot out and tripped English. The human grammar is a fecund weed, like grass. Languages like English, Persian, and Mandarin Chinese are mowed lawns, indicative of an interruption in natural proliferation.

John McWhorter

#2. I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Mira Sorvino

#3. I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

Lloyd Kaufman

#4. I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoyed the races where only four cars finished, and they were two laps apart.

Jacques Villeneuve

#5. Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

David Tang

#6. I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

Wang Leehom

#7. The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

Ludwig Buchner

#8. For Mandarin scripts, there's software now where you can just insert the Chinese script, and it comes out all in pinyin.

Daniel Wu

#9. In a dry and thirsty land, my soul thirsts for the living God, the living water.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Robert Galbraith

#11. I needed an adult female wearing a tight sleeveless cheongsam mini-dress to help me learn Chinese. All my senses would have to focus; otherwise I would end up knowing nothing. Tracing each Chinese character upon the small of her back with my index finger was only proper way to begin a lesson.

Matt Muller

#12. It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

Rachel Vincent

#13. And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead.

Caitlin Moran

#14. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. Magic
that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Robert Bloch