Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I feel whenever my shows are too hyped, they usually don't work.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.