I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
R. A. Salvatore

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
Barbara Jordan

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
Franz Boas

I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
Henry Laurens

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Jasper Johns

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.
Donald Judd

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
Camryn Manheim

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
Bram Fischer

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Gavin Bryars

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
Robert Rauschenberg

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Steven Morrissey

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.
Michael Flanders

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
Mary Astell

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
Howard Zinn

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
Vinoba Bhave

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.
Frederick Sanger

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
Henry Sweet