""That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?"
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

"You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."
— A.A. Milne

""Who are you?" he asked.
"I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.""
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat."
— Terry Pratchett

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt"
— Hunter S. Thompson

""Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.""
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"All those Nupboards in the Cupboards theey're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without."
— Dr. Seuss (There's a Wocket in My Pocket)

"It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none. "
— Snoop Dogg

"I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

""I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn."
Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.
"Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.""
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"Tell me,
Do you feel the way I feel?
'Cause nothing else is real
In the La La Land machine
"
— Demi Lovato

"We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun."
— Kevin Smokler (Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times)

"It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon.
Opal tapped this into her notepad.
Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day."
— Viggo Mortensen

"Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. "
— Larry Niven

"I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it."
— Anthony Bourdain

"go barf on a tree"
— Elisa Martinengo

"You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day."
— Viggo Mortensen

"The Coconut Grove Girls: [singing] All I do is dream of you the whole night through; with the dawn I still go on, dreaming of you. You're every thought, you're everything, you're every song I ever sing; summer, winter, autumn and spring. And were there more than twenty four hours a day; they'd be spent in sweet content dreaming away; when skies are grey, when skies are blue; morning, noon and night time too; all I do the whole day through is dream of you."
— Singing in the Rain (1952)

"nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries toimagine perfection simply revealshis own emptiness"
— George Orwell

"Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment. "
— Tom Bissell

"Jack: Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am? "
— The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

"Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things.

He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl. He sounded rather a nice man to Bertie. Any why should he not dress up in feathers and live in the forests if that was what he wanted to do? It was typical of his mother to try to spoil Grey Owl's fun. "
— Alexander McCall Smith (Love Over Scotland)

"Don't kill!...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together"
— Issa Kobayashi

"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.""
— k.d. lang, Summer Fling

"This is fun, this, this is a really fun time."
— Carly Shay