#intended

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#devil #i #important #intended #interpretation

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke. ↗

— Neil Peart

#go #golf #good #guys #i

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

#appeared #before #better #career #concentrate

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#children #enhancing #health #need #pregnancy

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#consumed #dish #entertainment #food #forgotten

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#entirely #even #glad #gloom #heart

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

— Robert Rauschenberg

#intended #old #paintings #read #sure

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #curious #definiteness #extravagant #hope

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#best #brought #called #closer #consequences

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birth #could #cry #dying #ends