Quotes by Fun It's always nice when people say cool things about you. That's fun. I love it! Ian Bohen nicefunpeople We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure. Ian Bogost lightfunthinking A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard. Ian Bogost fun-moviefunthinking If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle. Ian Bogost strugglefunthinking With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is. Ian Bogost funsportsnight I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. Howard Zinn indulgencewantfun The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be. Ian Bogost funmightpeople Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. Honore de Balzac marriagehusbandfun When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun. Ian Dunbar trainingdogfun Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there. Ian Dunbar hurtdogfun Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people. Ian Bogost funpeoplethinking I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds. Iain Banks technologyfunthinking When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it. Ian Bogost gamesfunthinking Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try. Ian Doescher fungivingpeople There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun. Iain Banks effortwritingfun For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. Ian Bogost ordinaryfunmean If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer. Ian Bogost funtalkingmean Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun." Ian Bogost usefunpeople When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. Ian Bogost bangsordinaryfun Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts. Ian Bogost unusualstrangefun«164165166167168169170171172173174»
