quotes about Bangs
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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
-- Alan GuthSource : "Alan Guth: What Made the Big Bang Bang" by Neil Swidey, www.bostonglobe.com. May 02, 2014.
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Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.
-- Alan Guth -
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.
-- Alan Watts -
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You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe.
-- Alan Watts -
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
-- Alfred HitchcockSource : "Attributed to Alfred Hitchcock in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion"". 1984.
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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.
-- Amanda HockingSource : Amanda Hocking (2010). “Hollowland”
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I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece "Don't threaten the sadistic goddess, Reece." -Erin
-- Angela Knight -
When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.
-- Ann Romney -
The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.
-- Arno Hintjens -
It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.
-- Bill McCollum -
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
-- Bill Nye -
It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.
-- Carl DouglasSource : "Simpson tells judge he is innocent" by Anne McDermott, www.cnn.com. September 22, 1995.
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The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]
-- Carl Sagan -
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
-- Carson McCullersSource : Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
-- Charles Jencks -
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
-- Darren Shan -
A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
-- David Lee Roth -
You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.
-- Deb CalettiSource : Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
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Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
-- Don Henley -
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.
-- E. T. Whittaker -
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.
-- Edward Witten -
You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.
-- Eminem -
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I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
-- Evel Knievel -
I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
-- Florence Welch -
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.
-- Francoise Sagan -
I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.
-- Fred Hoyle -
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The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.
-- Fred Hoyle -
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.
-- Fred HoyleSource : Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”
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The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.
-- Fred HoyleSource : Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”
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I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.
-- Gail Carriger -
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
-- Garry Winogrand -
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.
-- Geoffrey Burbidge -
There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
-- George Smoot -
The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
-- George Smoot -
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I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.
-- Giambattista Valli -
Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking that there's always possibility that they could have missed something, somewhere... But in return, the excitement you experience when your theory's smack bang correct is twice as great!
-- Gosho Aoyama -
Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'
-- Greg Kinnear -
Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization-that something transcendent started it all-which has hard-science types...using terms like 'miracle.'
-- Gregg EasterbrookSource : "The New Convergence". www.wired.com. December 1, 2002.
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Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
-- Hal Sparks -
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.
-- Hannes AlfvenSource : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.
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Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.
-- Hideo KojimaSource : Nintendo Power, November 2010.
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It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
-- Holly Black -
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The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END
-- Iain Banks -
And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.
-- James Lileks -
The world starts with a Big Bang and finishes with a human-made atomic Big Bang!
-- Javad AlizadehSource : Humor & Caricature magazine, May 1995.
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If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.
-- Jhumpa LahiriSource : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Mar 23, 2012
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The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.
-- Jim Parsons -
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
-- Jimmy WebbSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
-- Joe Elliott -
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When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
-- John Wayne -
Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
-- Johnny Galecki -
Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.
-- Johnny Galecki -
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.
-- Jonah LomuSource : "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.
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Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
-- Joseph SilkSource : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.
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I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.
-- Joy Baluch -
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
-- Julia Child -
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.
-- Kami Garcia -
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Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van
-- Kate Bush -
Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.
-- Katie Couric -
Sidharth and me were supposed to work much before Bang Bang, we were in talks for a few films which didnt work out...
-- Katrina Kaif -
There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.
-- Ken Dryden -
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It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.
-- Ken Wilber -
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
Whoever you end up with, you shouldn't be changing a thing for them. Nothing. Don't be with anyone if you can't be you. Because you're bang on just as you are.Â
-- Lucy RobinsonSource : Lucy Robinson (2012). “The Greatest Love Story of All Time”, p.296, Penguin UK
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People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!
-- Luis von AhnSource : "For Certain Tasks, The Cortex Still Beats The CPU". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. June 25, 2007.
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Boom Bang a Bang was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didnt relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didnt want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.
-- Lulu -
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
-- Marie Windsor -
A hydrogen bomb, for me, was puny compared to the Big Bang - the creation of the universe. That's what I really wanted to work on - the nature of the universe itself, and that's what I do for a living.
-- Michio Kaku -
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But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
All you have to do is put on the Bettie Bangs and everybody automatically knows what it means.
-- Olivia De Berardinis -
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson -
The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.
-- Pope Francis -
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Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
-- Roald Dahl -
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?
-- Robert J. Sawyer -
For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.
-- Robert Lanza -
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Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!
-- Robert MunschSource : Robert Munsch (2012). “Mortimer: Read-Aloud Edition”, p.7, Open Road Media
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
-- Rudy Rucker -
Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.
-- S. Robson Walton -
Big Bang is the group I want to be with till I die. I want us to be five members. Forever.
-- Seungri -
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Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
-- Stephen HarperSource : The National Post, December 08, 2000.
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There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.
-- Steve Toltz -
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
-- T. S. Eliot -
You should be willing to bang your head against a wall until you find the solution.
-- T.V. Mohandas Pai -
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I’m always the same. Whether I’m solo or with Big Bang, the one thing I have to do is sing and dance. I started solo activities with the things I did well with Big Bang, and I’ll show the things I learned while doing solo through Big Bang. Wherever I go and whatever I do, I am Taeyang and Dong Young Bae.
-- Taeyang -
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
-- Terry Pratchett -
I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.
-- Todd RundgrenSource : Song: Bang The Drum All Day
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There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.
-- Tom Leykis -
Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.
-- William Lane Craig -
Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
-- Zachary Knighton -
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
-- Zooey Deschanel -
You always want to start with a bang and put your best food forward.
-- Andrew KreisbergSource : Source: collider.com
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When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.
-- Mia Bloom -
This is wonderful for a young person, no matter what profession they're in. When you can see something and you can feel this attraction to it, then it becomes less of me trying to teach them as they teach themselves. They've got it and bang off they go.
-- Paul Rankin -