Evelyn Keyes Quotes

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

I'll be remembered as the biggest bust in NBA history. But I can't do nothing about that.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

I love basketball, and I didn't get a chance to finish my career the way I wanted.

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.