The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word…

Work hard, have fun and make history.

— Jeff Bezos

I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

— Tom Waits

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

— Ian Bogost

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

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word.…

— Frederick Lenz

“There’s that word again— “fun,” sanuk. Does fun really hold a special place in the Thai heart? “Absolutely, we laugh and joke during meetings.…

— Eric Weiner

Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book…

— Jim Trelease

“Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot more emeaglibop.”

— Jarod Kintz

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

— Jonathan Demme

“You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then…

— Chloe Neill

“See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.”

— Lewis Carroll

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.

— Liu Xiaobo

If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'

— Lyn Nofziger

You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well, I'm done…

— Nick Lowe