#intent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #intent




I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.


Steve Martin


#americanized #anyone #ask #classic #could

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


Mark Millar


#artists #good #how #intentions #matter

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.


Steven Patrick Morrissey


#been #british #had #i #intently

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

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.


Paul O'Neill


#back #could #critical #else #i

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.


Paul O'Neill


#give #however #intention #might #our

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!


Hortense Odlum


#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.


Julia Roberts


#back #because #been #coming #couple

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.


Elihu Root


#always #another #country #desire #first

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.


George Saunders


#being #decisions #during #intention #least