What is bang?

Famous quotes containing the word bang:

    “This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Don different from those regal Dons!
    With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
    Who shout and bang and roar and brawl
    The Absolute across the hall,”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)