Bangs Quote by Ian Bogost

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

— 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

Extraordinary: it is the extra that make us more than ordinary.

— Anonymous

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

— Ian Bogost

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of…

— Ian Bogost

Fun is just another word for learning.

— Raph Koster

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

— Jon Gordon

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

— Studs Terkel

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

— Chris Van Allsburg

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

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

— C. S. Lewis

To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean…

— Tara Dakides