Quotations About / On: FUN

  • 41.
    ... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
    (Gish Jen (b. 1956), U.S. novelist. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 2, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).)
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  • 42.
    But once more, office desks, radiators No! That is behind me.
    No more dullness, only movies and love and laughter, sex and fun.
    (John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Skaters, II.")
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  • 43.
    A big family must be fun. I imagine it makes you feel you belong to something.
    (Barré Lyndon (1896-1972), British screenwriter, and Byron Haskins. Clayton (Gene Barry), The War of the Worlds, talking to Sylvia in the abandoned farmhouse. Based on the novel by H.G.Wells.)
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  • 44.
    Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at something—and much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, "Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready," our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.
    (Hortense Odlum (1892-?), U.S. businesswoman. A Woman's Place, ch. 16 (1939).)
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  • 45.
    People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
    (Brian Friel (b. 1929), Irish playwright, author. Dodds, in The Freedom of the City, act 1.)
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  • 46.
    Give me Catholicism every time. Father Cheeryble with his thurible; Father Chatterjee with his liturgy. What fun they have with all their charades and conundrums! If it weren't for the Christianity they insist on mixing in with it, I'd be converted tomorrow.
    (Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Eustace Barnack, in Time Must Have a Stop, ch. 12 (1944). Eustace Barnack is a recurring type in Huxley's fiction. Like Henry Wimbush in Chrome Yellow, Jeremy Pordage in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, and Mustapha Mond in Brave New World, he appreciates the esthetics of culture but rejects its moral implications.)
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  • 47.
    The I'm-going-to-win-no-matter-how-I-have-to-do-it attitude just doesn't seem to fit. For me, a contest isn't a success unless it was fun, whether or not I win.
    (Margo Godfrey Oberg (b. c. 1955), U.S. surfer. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 12 (June 1977). When she said this, Oberg was already a five-time winner of the women's world championship in surfing.)
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  • 48.
    Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
    (Bruce Dickinson (b. 1958), British rock guitarist. Guardian (London, Jan. 10, 1991).)
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  • 49.
    Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after you—to keep men like this away from you.
    Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.
    (John Michael Hayes (b. 1919), U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly), Mrs. Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis), To Catch a Thief, Frances criticizes her mother's fondness for former jewel thief John Robie (Cary Grant). (1955). From The Novel By David D...)
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  • 50.
    So this tangle of impossible resolutions and irresolutions:
    The desire to have fun, to make noise, and so to
    Add to the already all-but-illegible scrub forest of graffiti on the shithouse wall.
    Someone is coming to get you:
    The mailman, or a butler enters with a letter on a tray
    Whose message is to change everything, but in the meantime ...
    (John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Grand Galop.")
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