Ferdie Fussbudget Quotes

#1. Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

Saadi

#2. The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

Deacon Jones

#3. We each must select the best hardships for our best future.

Bill Jensen

#4. ...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

Francis Wheen

#5. Being insulted by your child and loving them anyway is the human condition.

Sarah Ruhl

#6. [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

Anton Chekhov

#7. Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.

Stephanie Lawton

#8. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time.

Darren Aronofsky

#10. Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#11. One thing I don't like about crap:
its size that is too big to be digested.

Toba Beta

#12. The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

Joe Baca

#13. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.

Kevin Powers