Charlie Quote by Ion Keith-Falconer

“He loved cursing in Chinese, the breadth of options not available in English. He had trouble remembering the words for map and computer, but…

— Lisa Ko

“Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.”

— Murong Xuecun

“humanity. The roots of the Turing Test in logical positivism and English philosophy is part of the problem. Turing was trying to find a…

— David Boyle

“Lee said, “Remember, Mr. Hamilton, I told you I was trying to translate some old Chinese poetry into English? No, don’t worry. I won’t…

— John Steinbeck

There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

— Ken Liu

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but…

— Lin Yutang

“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“I remember when my daughter was just learning her letters. She was playing in her room and came downstairs to ask me, “Momma, what…

— Annie Leonard

“China produced no religious themes in the Western sense at all. The Chinese never generated a myth of cosmic creation.”

— Henry Kissinger

“The trick to learning Chinese is to always carry the flashcards into work every time, and also to write Chinese letters to your children.”

— John Wright

“If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein