Quotes for Intention

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

Mary Leakey

What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

Jacques Monod

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

Michael Bolton

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Jane Asher

It's really weird being placed into something like that because it was never an intention to make bedroom pop. I was just making music. All the people that have that genre placed on them are not the first people to have a home studio and and post it on the Internet.

Clairo

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

Maurice Jarre

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

Edward Blake

My only intention is to be happy and be in a place where I feel wanted.

Alvaro Morata

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

James Schuyler

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some movies. For others, it doesn't.

Aditya Roy Kapur

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

Jerry Ferrara

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Len Deighton

Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.

David Alpay

The more queer characters I play over my years of working as an actor, and the more I see other young artists stepping up with the same intention I have, to make space for the voices of a generation of people who may not fit the status-quo, the more it inspires me to keep going.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Douglass North

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

Isaac Pitman