Intended Meaning Quotes

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

The reason I took on directing a film myself was because, no matter how skilful a director was or how much I liked the film, there'd always be beats where I'd go, 'Oh... well, that's skilful, in a way, but it doesn't get the flavour I'd intended in the script.'

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

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

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

The message sent is not always the message received.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Man’s writing has but one true sense, which is that which the Author meant when he writ it.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.

In no way was I intending to say, nor have I ever thought, that the men and women who defend our nation in uniform are anything but courageous and valiant, and I offer my apologies to anyone who took it wrong.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctual writer, and I don't plot shows out like, "This is my thesis and this is how I'm going to subtly sneak my thesis into this episode." I just approach it from, "We know these characters well, here are the situations that they're in, now how would they behave? What would the consequences be?" And it's always fun to see how people interpret that and dissect it afterward, and make me and the other writers seem probably smarter than we really are.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

If what is said does not concord with what was meant, what is to be done cannot be effected.

I didn’t intend for it to be seen by the public…. I wanted to stimulate reflection and an internal debate.