#intent

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#attitude #away #best #best intentions #ever

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deceive #desire #does #false #indirect

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #avoided #change #expectations #fresh

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film. ↗

— Keir Dullea

#explained #film #his #intend #intentions

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#college #intentional #major #studies #very

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#commit #human #human brain #incessant #intent

The trouble is, when you gift a girl with flowers your choice can be construed so many different ways. A man might give you a rose because he feels you are beautiful, or because he fancies their shade or shape or softness similar to your lips. Roses are expensive, and perhaps he wishes to show through a valuable gift that you are valuable to him. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#interpretation #significance #the-ear-of-the-listener #beauty

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#interpreted #laws #liberal #may #preserved

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think. ↗

— Mark Millar

#artists #good #how #intentions #matter

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

#clear #did #economies #fail #find