Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
John Malkovich

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.
Alan Shepard

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
David R. Brower

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.
Lisa Leslie

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.
Nikki Cox

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Aldrich Ames

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.
Rip Taylor

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
Clarence Thomas

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
Bea Arthur

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.
Itzhak Perlman

I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.
Lizzie Andrew Borden

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.
Rory Bremner

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.
Allan Houston

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
Barry Levinson

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
Jeremy Rifkin

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.
Craig Charles