Top 100 For Fun Quotes
#1. No people. You get close to them, and they die or disappear. You kiss them, just for fun, and they tie you to the bed and steal your creds. They're messy. Stupid. Foolish.
Delilah S. Dawson
#2. I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.
James Salter
#3. See, tops are mostly into the sensation and pleasure of it. They play casually, for fun. Dominants are more serious about roles and rules, and usually more into the power exchange.
Annabel Joseph
#4. I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.
Jennifer Damiano
#5. Come on," said the Director. "You are all completely mad people who mess around with technology and weird social theory for fun until your brains shit themselves and you fall over. Any of you could have done this.
Warren Ellis
#6. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#7. I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping ... just little things.
Mark Indelicato
#8. Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!
Anne Rice
#9. If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it
for fun and for free.
Susan E. Isaacs
#10. I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?
Martijn Benders
#11. It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions.
Wylie Dufresne
#12. I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.
Graham Elliot
#13. Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.
Dexter Holland
#14. William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
Dick Cavett
#15. I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
Gerard Butler
#16. It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.
Hermann Maier
#17. I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.
Afrojack
#18. I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.
Robert Crais
#19. The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we are exploring and creating just for fun.
Miguel Ruiz
#20. Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.
Rafael Nadal
#21. A relationship is not just for fun, it is also about trust and the knowledge that you can depend on your partner.
Amish Tripathi
#22. JOHNNA: What pills does she take? BEVERLY: Valium. Vicodin. Darvon, Darvocet. Percodan, Percocet. Xanax for fun. OxyContin in a pinch. Some Black Mollies once, just to make sure I was still paying attention. And of course Dilaudid. I shouldn't forget Dilaudid.
Tracy Letts
#23. Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.
Roy MacGregor
#24. I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
Caitlin Rose
#25. When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'
Yasmine Bleeth
#26. When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how they went a week later - I remember that's when I thought: Maybe I'm gonna be a singer.
Lady Saw
#27. Look at her. She looks so harmless and meek, but inside she's a lion. Tory is an adrenaline junkie the likes of which you've probably never seen ... everything from deep-sea diving to base jumping. Hell, she even jumps out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. (Pam)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#29. Nico's anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He'd been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn't appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.
Rick Riordan
#31. I just read them for fun."
"Dictionaries?"
"Yes."
"That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful."
"Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The same meaning as awesome. I learned that from a dictionary."
He blinked.
"See?" She said. "Fun.
Max Barry
#32. The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.
Mason Cooley
#33. What do people get from all that devil mumbo-jumbo anyway?" "A sense of purpose, I guess." "They could volunteer at an animal shelter instead." "Yes, sir. But then they wouldn't get to have group sex while wearing goat horns or kill people for fun.
Dean Koontz
#34. Max! Save Total!
-Angel
No, I'm flying down at 90 miles an hour just for fun
-Max
James Patterson
#35. I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.
Dolly Parton
#36. Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds.
My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads!
How could I marry anyone
Who does that sort of thing for fun?
The Prince cried, Who's this dirty slut?
Off with her nut! Off with her nut!
Roald Dahl
#37. [after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible]
"Why did you do it?" asked the hostess with spirit.
The Witch shrugged. "For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
Gregory Maguire
#38. We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.
Rebecca Solnit
#39. Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.
Jessica Valenti
#40. When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
Gary Player
#41. We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
Leonard Cohen
#42. I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?
Jennifer Armintrout
#43. I love to write and have the basic foundation of what the song's all about. Then once the drums are done it's time for fun for me, because I don't know what I'm going to sing yet, and melody-wise I don't even have my lyrics written ...
Kirk Windstein
#44. I'm never going to understand the Barrani."
"You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either."
"Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.
Michelle Sagara West
#45. You smoke for fun. I smoke to die.
John Green
#46. This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!
Drew Goddard
#47. When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
Gerard Butler
#48. As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.
Christopher Poole
#49. Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH ...
Jack Kerouac
#50. The word "anarchy" does not mean "no rules." It does not mean "kill others for fun." It does not mean "no organization." It simply means: "without a political leader.
Stefan Molyneux
#51. My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
Ty Burrell
#52. In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun.
Katie Price
#53. Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.
Steve Caballero
#54. Commodore did not have a reputation for fun and games in 1980 - they were CBM, the business machine company.
Brian Bagnall
#55. Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread.
But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.
Jacqueline Davies
#56. Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
Yael Grobglas
#57. No. I sliced my own shirt for fun. Everyone's going to be dressing like this tomorrow.
H.M. Ward
#58. Hadrian snorted at his misplaced humor. "Not giving up yet, Hauk. Besides, you know how much I love to live dangerously. Why else would I share a domicile with Jayne? Risking her wrath is what I do for fun." "You need to find a new hobby, my friend."
-Hadrian & Fain
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. What's this? (Fang)
One for all and all for fun, my friend. You didn't think I'd let you fight demons all on your own, did you? (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. 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.
Franny Armstrong
#61. I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.
Adam Brody
#62. Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.
Jeremy Clarkson
#63. No, I don't want you to leave. I'm just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE
A.O. Storm
#64. Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something ... My theory is a children's book ... can be just for fun.
R.L. Stine
#65. Short stories always seem to cost me blood, and I envy the people who do them for fun.
Terry Pratchett
#66. From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
Joanne Harris
#67. Jesus, Steve hated cats. "They're so precious." Chenco crouched to love on the calico's belly. "I always wanted one, but my mom said no, and of course Cooper would have killed it for fun." Fuck, Steve was going to have to get a cat.
Heidi Cullinan
#68. I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Gaspard Ulliel
#69. Wow, what's up with her? She looks like she just killed somebody for fun.
Rainbow Rowell
#70. Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.
Colin Hanks
#71. At 13 you're not even thinking about that, you know? I was just playing for fun and uploading videos on YouTube because I wanted to show my family.
Justin Bieber
#72. Life is just not for fun and happiness it has a mixture of pain too. Rule your own life and face all the problems with courage.That's the way to lead life at any situation.
Debolina Bhawal
#73. I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.
Jeffrey Loria
#74. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
Ben Kingsley
#75. When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#76. I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.
Bill Kreutzmann
#77. What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?"
She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. "It's a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.
Jill Barnett
#78. When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
Danica McKellar
#79. say. "No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his." Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves
Suzanne Collins
#80. I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.
Henry Rollins
#81. My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake?
I think you're a good person.
Svetlana Chmakova
#82. If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker
#83. You know, people think I'm a little crazy because of what I do for fun, but I don't think I have anything on you.
James L. Rubart
#84. Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo Burnett
#85. In the end, she realized that anytime you weren't fucking for fun, regardless of what you told yourself, honey, it was hooking.
R. Lee Smith
#86. I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.
Bryan Greenberg
#87. I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 yrs old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.
Duke Roufus
#88. It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
Kara Walker
#89. What do you do for fun in this town?
Well, you know. Wash dishes. Wipe up baby drool, put a new quart of oil in him once in a while. Watch the Weather Channel to see if any of the neighbors have been blown away by a tornado. Eat too much cheese and get cheese farts.
Keeps you busy, huh?
Nick Wilgus
#90. I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
S.E. Hinton
#91. I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'
Donatella Versace
#92. I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
Beth Ditto
#93. His eyes were as green and curious as the eyes of a tomcat who is old enough to be wise but not old enough to have lost that refined sense of cruelty which passes for fun in feline circles.
Stephen King
#94. When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
Amy Chow
#95. You know, those iconic things we wanted to throw in for fun, but I think the point to see it was to see how totally different it was from what Len wanted to do with it. It's a different beast completely.
Jessica Biel
#96. When people watch football, they're looking for fun things.
John Madden
#97. Maybe he was just a crazy guy who liked funerals." Phyllis was applying polish topcoat with all the care of Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "Nobody goes to funerals for fun," said Lucy,
Leslie Meier
#98. Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
Mara Wilson
#99. They're for exercise, I think." "I've heard that," the old man said. "That Americans do pointless labor for fun.
Adam Johnson
#100. I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I'm always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.
Heidi Klum
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