My Intention Quotes

#1. Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

Len Brown

#2. It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

Richard Phillips

#4. [Clause in her will:] It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

Joan Crawford

#5. My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sidney Altman

#6. It's not my intention to let go of you," I mumbled. "Not ever.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. To see you cry wasn't my intention. just let me make it OK, just give me one more chance to say.

Darren Mew

#8. When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven't any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn't face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

Alan Paton

#9. I do not get involved in the game to think that it is a future transition for me getting back into the ring. It was not my intention. I've stated many times that I did it for my son.

Bill Goldberg

#10. My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#11. My intention is to do more films.

Adepero Oduye

#12. Heartache wasn't my intention... love was.

Alfa H

#13. And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

Jerry Garcia

#14. My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.

Alonzo King

#15. Go to hell," Sebastian muttered. "No doubt that was what you came to tell me tonight. If so, you're about a month too late."
"That was my intention," Westcliff admitted. "Now, however, I've decided to stay and have a snifter of brandy while you tell me what in God's name you're doing.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. 'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Michael Haneke

#17. My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Joni Mitchell

#18. My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.

Ben Marcus

#19. In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

James Meade

#20. I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

Kevin Rudd

#21. Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Jonny Lang

#22. We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.

Roy Kesey

#23. Your depression is exhaustion. Like Atlas, you try to carry this world on your own shoulders. This was never my intention. Allow me to carry the world.

Julia Cameron

#24. I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

Marcel Duchamp

#25. I intended only lilies. That was my intention: a bouquet of lilies. - The Magician

Kate DiCamillo

#26. The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

Bradford Cox

#27. When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

Michael Haneke

#28. I didn't know what I would do when I found you. But it was always my intention to save you.

Veronica Roth

#29. I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon the floor.

H.G.Wells

#30. My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Maurice Ravel

#31. revenge was never my intention.
-but it still tastes sweeter than honey

Amanda Lovelace

#32. My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

Logan Marshall-Green

#33. I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.

Deepak Chopra

#34. Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

Joaquin Phoenix

#35. That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

Russell Simmons

#36. My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

Jill Scott

#37. When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a teaching moment. It was more, 'Here are things that have happened to me; here's what I've learned from it. If you'd like to learn from it too, great; if you just like the entertainment aspect, that's fine too.'

Tyler Oakley

#38. I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

Lee Daniels

#39. All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

Chuck Berry

#40. MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended
including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

Janet Jackson

#41. My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

#42. Success is clarity of my intention ... and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.

India.Arie

#43. If you can build a company and make money, great. But eventually, my intention is to give all my money away. I told my kids that. [Wealth] is not particularly helpful to kids. It's almost a burden. It's better to allow them to do their own thing and have their own successes.

Steve Case

#44. It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

Franz Kafka

#45. I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

Damian Lewis

#46. It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.

Knut Hamsun

#47. My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#48. I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

Robert Rauschenberg

#49. I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.

Moliere

#50. 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

#51. Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#52. My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.

Hermann Eilts

#53. If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

Marc Chagall

#54. My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

Edward Snowden

#55. Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start by knowing my intention, my target. Then, with purpose, I write the scene that unfolds before me, as faithfully as is human. - Daniel LaMonte

Daniel LaMonte

#56. As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

Laura Dekker

#57. My intention is to live more fully each moment with who - how - I actually am, not who I imagine I will be one day.

SARK

#58. Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Abraham Lincoln

#59. My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

Gisele Bundchen

#60. When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.

Adam Green

#61. Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Dalai Lama

#62. My intention in this book is to prove that one single voice, with the right words, can have the roar of a million and can influence the world by creating a precise understanding of democratic socialism - or to be more precise and use the latest terminology, "universal welfare society.

Mikkel Clair Nissen

#63. My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

Jeff Baena

#64. If the result is an intention, so what was my intention if I got the injury?

Giedrius Svetkauskas

#65. My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

Shimon Attie

#66. YouTube has always been a diary for me. I'm here to share what I do, share my life, and if people want to watch, more power to them. But regardless of my intention, if people are looking at what I do and am treating it like I'm a role model, it doesn't matter whether or not I want to be.

Tyler Oakley

#67. It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

Richard Billingham

#68. There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Tim Roth

#69. It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

John Dyer Baizley

#70. 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

#71. On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

Charles Sturt

#72. It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

Helen Mirren

#73. It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.

Margaret Edson

#74. Truly, I did not intend to harm you, he said. That was never my intention.

Kate DiCamillo

#75. I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning - and evidently does - quite opposite to my intention.

Charles Dickens

#76. 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

#77. I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

Elie Tahari

#78. 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

#79. Gimme thousands of choices of joy and glory. gimme dreaming promises that lift up my intention.
I won't take one of them at all cos I've chosen my own and it's you

Neo Wasiman

#80. I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

Alberto Giacometti

#81. Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

Sean Penn

#82. The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

Joaquin Phoenix

#83. My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

Jon Secada

#84. My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take.

Maya Goded

#85. There is a lot of stuff I write that makes it seem like my intention is to make people think I'm speaking about myself entirely, and it is my intention to make people think that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's what it is.

Chelsea Martin

#86. Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

William Beckford

#87. My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

Adam Sandler

#88. It was my intention to create a heart that worked well enough for Amaros to put one within his own body," she said. "That was his ultimate plan. Once he did, it would have made him weaker. Then I could kill him.

Kristen Callihan

#89. My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one.

Jewel

#90. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#91. With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

Jon Secada

#92. It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Zachary Quinto

#93. I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.

Sonny Sharrock

#94. I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

Zachary Quinto

#95. Beginning Beloved with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

Toni Morrison

#96. My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.

Marta

#97. 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

#98. I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

Stephen Hawking

#99. My intention that people will feel like throttling her

Sara Gruen

#100. 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