Kerri Walsh Quotes

You can't die with an unfinished book.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

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

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

I think you always have regrets.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.

It happened to me on 'King of the Hill,' where I'd left it before the end and didn't really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.