“When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.” ThinkingShouldMayLongLeftTermPiecesStagePoetReaderFameTenCriticsFollowingStealingTemplesPoundsOrthodoxJustificationLong AgoShrinksPosterityCondemnationCharlatans Author:Laura Riding
“I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but I’m learning that it’s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what I’m doing by giving my best. I’ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.” WantGivingShowsWould BeLastsOpportunityLeftCasesFansStageCoupleFameStealingHopefullyHallsHonourHall Of Fame Author:Gail Kim
“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!” BookStoriesHandsLightEyeAgeLeftPleasureObjectsPleaseFameGloryConsciousDearBrilliantWitTreasureGoldenRejoiceVolumeSageDeliciousDeceivedBeamRaptureMusings Author:Isaac D'Israeli
“And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.” WorldPersonsWholeFilmLeftStarsFameNormalContrastLeft AloneFilm Stars Book:A Mouse is Born Source: A Mouse is Born
“I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.” NeedsFirstsArtEnoughHomeCultureLeftGenerationsLandFameAmbitionFortuneWideDeliberateAustralianMy Generation Book:Boyer Lectures 2011 Source: Boyer Lectures 2011
“I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either.” MenWantSometimesMatterKidsJobsFacesLeftSexEnjoyAttentionFrontsLike YouFameDaughterAskingYeahRefuseMy DaughterJealousLeft AloneRubberHaving SexBeing Jealous Author:Jim Carrey
“I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself spending the rest of my life being a strummer for someone else's dreams. Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bullshit and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.” ReasonDreamJobsOpportunityLeftFeltDecisionMillionsCreativeRegretNeededFameOppositesMirrorsSpendingAspirationBullshitFulfilling Author:Mark Knopfler
“Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.” NeedsLittlesLeftWealthGoneFameIntelligentProsperitySexyTransient Book:Self-portrait Source: Self-portrait
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?” LongTwoThreeLeftFameRock StarAgeingSuperhumanMusic And LifeTimeless Music Author:David Bowie
“The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.” SelfScienceLeftNatureEnvironmentBalanceFameRiversEnvironmentalExtraordinaryOur EnvironmentNature And EnvironmentEarth And NatureSave The EnvironmentSaving The Earth Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"” WorldWayGivingHeartWarOrderLostLeftForceSituationWorstMilitaryBattleFameLosingStrategyExcellentWar Of The WorldsReportsWorld War ICommandersTextbooksWaveringHeadquartersGiving WayMilitary StrategyLost Heart Author:James Keller
“Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins. No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth. Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.” MindWisdomBodyEyeAgeTodayEarthBeautifulRememberFacesLyingHouseLeftWealthDarkBehindsHonorFameHolesDustRuinsPostsIslamicPossessedPonderingWidowsOrphanPassed AwayBeautiful Body Author:Al-Ghazali
“I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards.” TryingI CanEndsLeftBrainDoorsWorstWallFameUnderstoodLogicPhotographerLogicalDisappointedCoping Author:Robert Pattinson