Edward Hopper Quotes

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

Usually I'm too tired to apologize.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Some might have liked us more if we had intervened less ... some might have disliked us less if we had intervened more, but ... having concluded that we intended to intervene no more and no less than we actually did, nobody had any use for us at all.

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

I always wanted to play in the Super Bowl. That never happened. It hurts. I'm not going to lie about it. It's reality. You deal with it.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

I very much regret that I haven't been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.

I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you'd be lying if you said there wasn't a twinge of regret there.

I hate not playing. That's the bottom line.

As a kid, you always dream to play at Lord's. Unfortunately, we missed playing at Lord's in 2014 as the match was washed out.

The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.

I didn't leave school early to sit on the bench.

It's kind of hard to sit on the bench and watch your team go down when you think you can go out there and make a difference.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.