Bangs Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Drama, Important, Done

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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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

  Life, Sex, Strange

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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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 Kojima

  Today, Digital, Entertainment

  Nintendo Power, November 2010.

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• Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

  Richard Dawkins

  One Day, May, Bigs

  "God vs. Science". Interview with David Van Biema, content.time.com. November 5, 2006.

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• 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

  Civilization, Objective Truth, Assumption

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• It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

  Richard E. Grant

  Christmas, Depressing, Winter

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• I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Issues, Long

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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 Ahn

  People, Together, Computer

  "For Certain Tasks, The Cortex Still Beats The CPU". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. June 25, 2007.

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• But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

  Douglas Adams

  Opposites, Missing, Rubbish

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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• Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Children, Night

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hands, Ideas, People

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.48, Random House

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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

  Stuff, Given, Known

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, Shine On, Confusion

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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

  Names, Aftermath, Bigs

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• T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound was brutal. Final.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Doors, Sound, Finals

  S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.1, Feiwel & Friends

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• Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy." "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Two, Labs

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.36, Allison & Busby

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• You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.

  Nick Hornby

  Flower, Kissing, Color

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.62, Penguin

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• how can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back. Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping he'd come back and bang on it proclaiming, "I want to be here with you. Always." Soon I'm going to have to shutit. For my safety and my sanity. Let go. I don't want to. Won't letting go be just that - letting go? Giving up? Admitting failure? Admitting that it is really, truly over?

  Freya North

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Doors

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• 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

  Atheist, Atheism, Evolution

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• But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Love You, Men

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• We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

  Bill Bryson

  Doors, Years, Four

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.319, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Thinking, Insane, Desire

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• Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Leader, Guilt, Gang

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• Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

  Roald Dahl

  Army, Blow, Said

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.35, Penguin

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