Lennox Lewis Quotes

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

Things always look better when you haven't seen them.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.