Life Quotes

One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

Wendell Pierce

Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.

Wendell Pierce

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

Wendell Pierce

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

Wendell Pierce

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

Wendell Pierce

I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.

Wendell Pierce

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

William Lyon Phelps

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

William Lyon Phelps

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

William Lyon Phelps

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

William Lyon Phelps

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

William Lyon Phelps

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

William Paley

Who can refute a sneer?

William Paley

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

William Penn

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

William Penn

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

William Penn

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

William Penn

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

William Penn

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

William Penn

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

William Penn