Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o’ nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at. – Ellen Terry
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. – Edward Hopper
You know the way there are two kinds of actors – the De Niro kind who’s always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don’t have a house style. – Emma Donoghue
‘House of Leaves’ is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear – and it was my aim to address that – but it’s also about recovering from fear. – Mark Z. Danielewski
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years. – Major Owens
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well. – Emma Donoghue
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. – Ernest Hemingway
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top. – Douglas Coupland
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important. – Marcus Brigstocke
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. – Daniel Kahneman
Congress has consistently rejected policies that aim to allow illegal aliens to serve in the military. – Paul Gosar
We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient. – Martin Naughton
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer’s privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it. – Lucy Larcom
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air. – John Boyle O’Reilly
To my thinking, this: – that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. – Julius Wellhausen
