“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.” ThinkingTryingThreeNextFunProcessGoalFiveHappenedHundredOpeningSixtyShakingLiftingTry AgainExaminingThe Next OneChristmas Present Author:Benjamin Hoff
“I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensFunKnow HowHappenedTaughtTerribleDecidedArmyTheaterIllnessRoughLiving My LifeKoreaElderlyI Live My LifeClose To Death Author:Michael Caine
“The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsImportantDifferentBigsWould BeLastsGivenFunMistakeHappenedGroupsTeamKeysMessagesCompareLast YearTerrificBig Mistake Author:Tony Bennett
“If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.” PeopleIfsLooksReasonAgeFunWatchesHappened80sOutfitsHairdos Author:Alex Borstein
“You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksCarePainLastsAmericaFunLinesAudienceHappenedHugeScaredDon't CareI Don't CareHaving FunAwakeStayingLast YearSpectrumIntrospectiveDealing With It Author:Wes Craven
“I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun.” YearsStillsTwoDreamLostFunFireHappenedBrotherMonthsCaughtCardsMy BrotherApartmentAlasTwo MonthsTarotLost EverythingTarot Cards Author:Franny Armstrong
“I would have liked to come back in 300; they did an origins film of 300 just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.” Has BeensCharacterFilmFunHappened Author:Robert Maillet
“Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.” IfsTryingKidsLife IsFunHappenedHaving FunWarningFragile Book:Trump: The Art of the Deal Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the New York City Police Department. I guess people thought it was pretty interesting to have these two things meshed together. My life is pretty boring, I don't know why they're doing this. It's fun.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsTwoBookTogetherLife IsFunStuffInterestingCitiesHappenedNew YorkInvolvedPoliceBoringProfessionTwo ThingsDepartmentNew York CityCopPolice Department Author:Ralph Sarchie
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.” WorldMomentsCharacterHappensGuyFunStuffInterestingSituationWatchesHappenedCrazySkillsOrdinaryExtraordinaryThings HappenOddShyOur WorldCrazy Things Author:Todd Farmer
“If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.” PeopleIfsMenMindMatterWould BeGamesFunDifferencesRaceBrainHappenedUnusualGuessingBrain PowerSubtractionBookkeepers Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.” PeopleMadeStillsSeemsMotherCoursesFunNumbersHappenedChangedMotherhoodPrioritiesHaving FunBest ThingsVioletBest Thing That Ever Happened To Me Author:Imelda May
“From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.” IfsThinkingHas BeensFunViewsHappenedPoint Of ViewTalesStraightforwardEugenics Author:T.C. Boyle
“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!” WayTryingKindHas BeensIdeasHappensWould BeGuyGirlFunBitsWaitingLinesMorningCreativeHappenedWeekPaintingFineApproachConnectionsAskingCornersBusBe CreativeThis GuyIntriguingPostersStalkingFine LinesManipulativeBus StopsMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career.” ShouldKindFunActingCareersTeacherHappenedLessonsThirdsPursueManagersThings To DoGradesFun ThingsThird GradeActing Teachers Author:Jared Gilman
“The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.” SaidFunSawsHappenedLetting GoApproachConceptsDown AndCamerasSatFlewSagaAmsterdamMapleSyrupMaple Syrup Author:Casey Neistat