Quotes on Fun

One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.'

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

I've done things that can be made fun of. It's not such a bad thing. If I'm going to end up a role model, then I'd rather not end up being the kind of role model that pretends to be perfect, and pretends that she always has the right thing to say. I'm a product of role models that didn't make me feel like I was as good as them.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

I think work is the world's greatest fun.

We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.

A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.

I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.