Intent Quotes - page 3

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way. (Rasmus Lerdorf)
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done. View quote
Suze Orman
I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? View quote
Charles Portis
In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. View quote
Michael Fox
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept. View quote
Donald Pleasence
Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. View quote
Billy Tauzin
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent. View quote
Charles C. Mann
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. View quote
Chris Marker
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her. (David Lehman)
I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive. View quote
Diane Cilento
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. View quote
Jock Sturges
An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away. View quote
John Hockenberry
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. View quote
John M. Ford
While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself. View quote
Kevin Shelley
I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it. View quote
Kelli Giddish
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. View quote
Madeleine Peyroux
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent. View quote
Malcolm Boyd
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith. View quote
Nick Rahall
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. (Peter T. King)
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. View quote
Robert Caro
He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent. View quote
Ruth Park
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. View quote
Tim Bishop
I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. View quote
Theodore Bikel