Top 100 Lennox Quotes
#1. I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
Cate Blanchett
#3. The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.
Amy Lee
#4. Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury.
Tyson Fury
#5. He has been a world champion - great for him - but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I'm here waiting for him because I'm the best British fighter to come out of these shores.
Tyson Fury
#6. I know that Annie Lennox has saved my life quite a few times, and I never forget that.
David A. Stewart
#7. There was a special place in Hell for guys like Lennox. It was called life.
Kami Garcia
#8. The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.
Meg Ryan
#9. It was one of Mrs. Hale's fitful days, when everything was a difficulty and a hardship; and Mr Lennox's appearance took this shape, although secretly she felt complimented by his thinking it worthwhile to call.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#11. There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.
Vitali Klitschko
#12. I always liked how people like Grace Jones and Annie Lennox pushed it with the videos. I'm not the most stylish person at all, but there's something about playing dress-up for the day and playing the role of a singer.
Jessie Ware
#13. I'm in another country, the one called home. I am alive. I am a precious jewel. I am a drop of blood. I am Ruby Lennox.
Kate Atkinson
#14. I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson
#15. People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.
Lennox Lewis
#16. I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.
Lennox Lewis
#17. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too ... she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#18. I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].
John Lennox
#19. I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.
Sophie Thompson
#20. I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. - Chynna Lennox
Jim Cooper
#21. If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#22. If you don't fight for your faith, you will lose it. Your faith is worth fighting for, Lennox.
Mandy Fender
#23. I know these two weeks have been God walking right into my life like he has flesh and Kool-Aid coloured hair. The gospel according to Bodee Lennox. His safety. His protection. And love.
Courtney C. Stevens
#24. My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Natalie Cole
#25. Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
Annie Lennox
#26. You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.
Lennox Lewis
#27. Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
Annie Lennox
#28. I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
Annie Lennox
#29. Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
Annie Lennox
#30. If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.
Annie Lennox
#31. Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
Annie Lennox
#32. Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.
Lennox Lewis
#33. I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch.
Lennox Lewis
#34. Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
Annie Lennox
#35. Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
John Lennox
#36. We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
Annie Lennox
#37. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
Annie Lennox
#38. When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.
Lennox Lewis
#39. If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.
Annie Lennox
#40. Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train.
Lennox Lewis
#41. I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
Annie Lennox
#42. The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
Annie Lennox
#43. I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
Annie Lennox
#44. We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
Charlotte Lennox
#45. I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
Annie Lennox
#46. Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
Lennox Lewis
#48. Whatever I do, I always want to get better.
Lennox Lewis
#49. I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.
Annie Lennox
#50. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
Annie Lennox
#51. I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
Annie Lennox
#52. If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
Annie Lennox
#53. I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
Annie Lennox
#54. So, I gave my belts out to others to give them a chance.
Lennox Lewis
#55. Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody ... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
Annie Lennox
#56. I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.
Lennox Lewis
#57. Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.
Annie Lennox
#58. Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.
John Lennox
#59. When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!
Annie Lennox
#60. More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.
Annie Lennox
#61. There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand.
Lennox Lewis
#62. Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
Annie Lennox
#63. Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.
Annie Lennox
#64. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
Annie Lennox
#65. I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
Annie Lennox
#66. In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
Lennox Lewis
#67. Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
Lennox Lewis
#69. It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
Annie Lennox
#70. We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.
Annie Lennox
#71. Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
Annie Lennox
#73. Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
Annie Lennox
#74. We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
Annie Lennox
#75. I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
Lennox Lewis
#76. Well I thought my time was over, but it's only just begun.
Annie Lennox
#77. When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.
Lennox Lewis
#78. For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.
Lennox Lewis
#79. All in all. You have been. Redeemer. Pain Steeler. My best friend. Please hold my hand.
Courtney C. Stevens
#80. I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
Annie Lennox
#81. I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.
Annie Lennox
#82. I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Annie Lennox
#83. We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015 ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.
Annie Lennox
#84. I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
Annie Lennox
#85. I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.
Lennox Lewis
#86. But in some quarters the very success of science has also led to the idea that, because we can understand the mechanisms of the universe without bringing in God, we can safely conclude that there was no God who designed and created the universe in the first place.
John C. Lennox
#87. The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
Lennox Lewis
#88. Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
Annie Lennox
#89. I'm undisputed and there's no disputing that.
Lennox Lewis
#90. There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
Annie Lennox
#91. Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
Annie Lennox
#92. The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
Lennox Lewis
#93. Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
Annie Lennox
#94. I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.
Annie Lennox
#95. You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals
my mission is complete.
Lennox Lewis
#96. I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
Annie Lennox
#97. No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Charlotte Lennox
#99. I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations ... We all have dreams.
Annie Lennox
#100. I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
Annie Lennox
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