I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

- Elizabeth Bowen

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.

- Jock Sturges

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

- Jeff Koons

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

- Ian Hacking

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

- Iyanla Vanzant

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

- Harbhajan Singh

When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.

- Greg Rucka

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

- Gary Bauer

I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

- Gary Johnson

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

- Evan Spiegel

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

- Alex Campbell

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

- Donald Cargill

I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

- Dave Gibbons

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.

- Diane Cilento

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

- Duke Ellington

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

- Chris Marker

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

- Charles C. Mann

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

- Bon Scott

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.

- Brad Pitt

I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go public.

- Andrea Mackris