Intention Quotes

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
Norman Rockwell

Life, Age, Good

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
Jasper Johns

Life, Mind, Small

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
Jonah Hill

Movies, Book, Write

I don't have any intention of resigning.
Eric Holder

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
Diana Ross

Build, Park, Playground

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Don DeLillo

Whole, Picture, Culture

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
Jodie Foster

Love, Looking, Movie

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
Liev Schreiber

Acting, Motivation, Curious

All that counts in life is intention.
Andrea Bocelli

I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Paul Getty

Marrying, Absolutely, Kennedy

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Edvard Munch

Room, Frame, Provide

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.
Mira Nair

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
Georgina Chapman

Learning, Real, Fashion

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
Henri Bergson

Laughter, Find, Correct

As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.
Trey Anastasio

Music, Long, Real

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
Hans Blix

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
Gary Coleman

Friends, Talk, Making

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.
Dennis Kucinich

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
Kate Smith

Sincerity, Analysis, Strict

I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.
Alan Sugar

Women, Children, Able

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.
Carrie Brownstein

Funny, Humor, Find

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
Mary MacLane

Desire, Public, Stage

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.
Tim Gunn

Hurt, Person, Learned

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
Caleb Carr

Good, Women, Mother

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
Jim Jarmusch

Simple, Together, Through

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
Joel Coen

Trying, Leave, Movie

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
Emmy Rossum

After, Girlfriend, Whatever

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
Fred Thompson

Good, America, Cleaning

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
Victor Garber

Good, Sometimes, Parent

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