65 Bang Quotes On Success In Life

These Bang quotes will inspire you. Bang to strike with a sharp noise or thump or to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive noise or series of such noises.

Best Bang Quotes

1. “During an election, it’s like they’re doing my job: they’re going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it’s the same thing.” ~ Emma Thompson
2. “The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]” ~ Mark Twain
3. “What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?” ~ Larry Wall

4. “It’s like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I’d be able to make myself stop.” ~ Cassandra Clare

5. “I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.” ~ Fred Couples
6. “Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.” ~ Banksy
7. “This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn’t pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.” ~ Matt LeBlanc
8. “Writing is a very strenuous thing – it’s like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer’s room.” ~ Donald Glover

9. “I don’t want the IRS banging down my door.” ~ Jessica Cutler

10. “Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.” ~ Ronnie Montrose
11. “I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that” ~ Armand Assante
12. “Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that’s not what I call rock.” ~ Little Richard
13. “I also like the banging piano – that old good-time piano.” ~ Little Richard

14. “I enjoy humour more than anything, I don’t really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.” ~ Joaquin Phoenix

15. “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.” ~ Banksy
16. “A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.” ~ Banksy
17. “I am so not a proper, good female. I can’t dance in high heels and I’m just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.” ~ Kesha
18. “I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.” ~ Charlie Sheen

19. “I was banging seven-gram rocks…because that’s how I roll. I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.” ~ Charlie Sheen

20. “You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.” ~ Banksy
21. “A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.” ~ Banksy
22. “Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.” ~ Banksy
23. “It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.” ~ David Hackworth
24. “Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .” ~ Abdul Qadeer Khan

25. “The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.” ~ John McEnroe

26. “I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.” ~ Branford Marsalis
27. “I don’t know why people keep banging on about the ’60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn’t go off with different people – I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.” ~ Jane Birkin
28. “I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.” ~ Robert Wyatt
29. “Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!” ~ Burt Ward

30. “When you’re young, you just go banging about, but you’re more sensitive as you grow older.” ~ Deborah Kerr

31. “If you can’t go through it, find a way around it. Don’t spend all your time banging your head against it.” ~ Lenny Wilkens
32. “The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time.” ~ John McEnroe
33. “Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
34. “Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.” ~ Maureen Johnson

35. “I’m blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn’t enough.” ~ Don Henley

36. “Rochelle,” she calls out, still looking at me. “Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something.” I’m too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble? Rochelle’s gotten up; she’s banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one’s in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. “What do you need this time of night?” Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. “A tampon” ~ Patricia McCormick
37. “Studios weren’t banging on my door to offer me parts… And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?” ~ Jane Fonda
38. “I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.” ~ David Letterman

39. “Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.” ~ Questlove

40. “”You don’t believe in God,” I said to Stein. “God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus.” “Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not.” “For children.” “Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that’s hardly childish.” “That’s part of the horror. It’s all a fantasy. It’s all for nothing.”” ~ Peter De Vries
41. “If something isn’t working out in one aspect of my career, it’s not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it’s just something that I accept, and that’s okay. I’m not going to keep banging my head against the wall.” ~ Irene Cara
42. “We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we’re for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush’s proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, ‘Stop it, now!'” ~ Molly Ivins

43. “A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!” ~ Eazy-E

44. “I’m spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They’re banging on the ceiling / They’re praying that I’ll soon be out.” ~ Kim Wilde
45. “I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ballup against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.” ~ Robert Benchley
46. “I think it’s an American curse that most of us think we are special. … everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it’s their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.” ~ Fay Faron
47. “I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients – but that’s not me. I’m working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation.” ~ Erin Cummings

48. “[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.” ~ Hugh Walpole

49. “Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.” ~ Peter Mayle
50. “Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn’t do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.” ~ Nick Bantock
51. “I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that’s cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, “No way, man. He’s just banging strippers.” And I do that, but not all the time.” ~ Henry Rollins
52. “I don’t mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. “I prayed very hard and then the fairy came.” “Did he? Good. Have a biscuit.” I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. “You have to let the fairy into your heart.” Look, I wouldn’t let him into my garden, okay? I’d shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn’t. Now have another biccie and be quiet, will you please?” ~ Dylan Moran

53. “It’s very simple… this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.” ~ David Douglas Duncan

54. “The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and … on the whole, they tend to be reactionary.” ~ Jilly Cooper
55. “There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.” ~ Matisyahu
56. “One song isn’t going to ever change things, but I suppose it’s the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing ‘War, what is it good for?’ All those things change the whole way we live.” ~ Mick Jagger

57. “I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it.” ~ Anthony Jeselnik

58. “I write anywhere. I’m always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I’m doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I’ll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.” ~ Dolly Parton
59. “I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it…You’d watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.” ~ Chris Christie
60. “I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.” ~ Tom Paulin
61. “I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that skeptics like Christopher Booker and myself ‘only’ have arts degrees. But actually, that’s our strength, not our weakness. Our intellectual training qualifies us better than any scientist – social or natural sciences – for us to understand that this is, au fond, not a scientific debate but a cultural and rhetorical one.” ~ James Delingpole

62. “Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.” ~ Roky Erickson

63. “Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour.” ~ Mike Brown
64. “Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is … to put it mildly … severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama’s associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don’t care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.” ~ David Frum
65. “Can you imagine a 6-year-old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.” ~ Jill Sobule

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