Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.
What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.
I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this. " It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.
I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys. We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster. That's how you get a pearl, after all.
I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets. " "Hey! My dad drives a minivan. " "Snap.
Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.
Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.
Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.
Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.
But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.