Douglas Coupland

I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.

Canadian Author

Alex Smith

It's one thing as a quarterback to sit there and warm up. And there's one thing to throw routes. And there's another thing when you drop back in the pocket and, when a guy comes open, to really be able to urgently - bam - all of a sudden. That guy's open; your body has to do what your mind's telling you.

American Athlete

George Strait

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

American Musician

Delilah

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.

British Musician

Mario Gomez

Scoring a goal is an explosion of feelings. It's there immediately - bam! Before you kick the ball, you feel like you're 200 kilos. Then the ball leaves your foot, goes through the air and ripples the net. And for that moment, you're weightless.

German Athlete

Helen McCrory

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

British Actress

Anna Boden

With 'Half Nelson,' we went to Sundance and then we just bam, bam, bam, festival, festival, festival, festival and then we released in August.

American Director

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

American Actress

Ian Hecox

Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.

American Comedian

David Baldacci

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

American Novelist

Indicates an unexpected event, usually causing surprise or alarm.

Sudden Occurrence

Mimics the sound of the event it describes, enhancing the listener's experience.

Onomatopoeia

Doesn't always correspond to an actual sound, can describe an impactful event.

Not Literal

Adds a dramatic effect to a narrative, often used in storytelling.

Dramatic Flair

Evokes a strong emotional response or highlights a climax.

Emotional Intensity

Used to imitate a loud sound, often in response to a surprising action.

Expressive Sound

Often found in comic strips or animations to emphasize action.

Comic Effect

Helps the reader or listener visualize an impactful event.

Convey Impact

 bam! Dotted line -- millions of dollars started to flow. That was the missing piece!" No one's ever said that, right? There's actually physical manifestations that we probably see in ourselves by being micromanaged. Think about the most tired you've ever been in your life, right? It probably wasn't when you stayed the latest at work,

Confessions of a...

 and bam! No more protein expression. You can even get creative and target that effect to certain systems, knocking down genes in just the brain, or just the liver, or just the heart. Figuring out what happens when you knock down a gene in a certain system can be an important step

RNAi: Slicing, dicing...

 have been targeted and harassed at gunpoint by the police. I created this body of work simply entitled "BAM." It was important to erase the identity of each of these figures, to make them all look the same and easier to disregard. To do this, I dip them in a thick, brown wax

An artist's unflinching...

 gazillion times and that's where we are and then suddenly BAM a universe appears and the entire universe and we've crossed our first threshold the universe is tiny it's smaller than an atom it's incredibly hot it contains everything that's in today's

The history of our world...

 measuring the heat of the planet, and every now and then we get a spike – bam! It became very clear very soon that this was radio signals from the lightning in Jupiter's atmosphere, maybe a thousand times brighter than the lightning on Earth.

Uncovering Jupiter's...

 female leopard seal going across the screen and bam disappeared i back myself up to the cliff this is the first time i've ever been in the water with with a leopard seal and in the green haze of the plankton bloom i'm suddenly

Diver Encounters Deadly,...

 Photos are imbued with a lot, and they're shaped and determined by where the photographer stands and the moment that the photographer chooses. And that's a lot of responsibility, because as a photographer, you choose, bam!

Exploring Rodeo,...

 protons start to fuse, there's a huge release of energy, and -- bam! We have our first stars. From about 200 million years after the Big Bang, stars begin to appear all through the universe, billions of them.

 The first two ideas on that list create a pattern, and that pattern creates expectation. And then the third thing -- bam! -- Kayak. What? That's the rule of three. One, two, surprise! Ha ha.

Three ideas. Three...

 So now we have a whole extended bacteria family, filled with virus sleeper cells. They're just happily living together until a signal happens and bam! -- all of the DNA pops out.

Bam