Monica Ali Quotes

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

I sort of dropped the ball after 'Bonnie and Clyde.'

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

I could have been a dancer. I just never got my shot at it.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.