Bats Quotes

• The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Baby

  Shel Silverstein, “Batty”

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• For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Soul, Reason

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

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• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Sky, Tea

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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• Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

  John Berryman

  Funny, Song, Drinking

  1964 'Dream Song No.63'.

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• We can't stop here, this is bat country!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88

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• We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Las Vegas, Sky, Top Down

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

  Prince Philip

  Gun, Hands, Cricket

  "Prince Philip's Gun Views Stir Furor" by William D. Montalbano, articles.latimes.com. December 20, 1996.

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

  Julie Andrews

  Inspiring, Careers, Thousand

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• In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

  Samuel Johnson

  Night, Ideas, Darkness

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 90 (16 October 1769)

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• A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Rain, Air

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

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• My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Baseball, Father, Play

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• I've grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it's emblematic of the Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want, i.e., the grail. Sometimes you get what you need. And whatever she's gotten over the last couple of years, being humbled or be it being humbled and see the proletariat come to bat for her, getting outside of the bubble, getting out of this man's shadow, not quite getting the job she wants but a great wonk job.

  Dennis Miller

  Song, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?

  Charles Darwin

  Horse, Men, Hands

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.441

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• A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

  Tim Minchin

  Thinking, Ideas, Prejudice

  "Have a heart". "The Science Show", www.abc.net.au. October 12, 2013.

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• Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

  Amy Waldman

  Bridges

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• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  Idries Shah

  Spiritual, Struggle, Sleep

  Idries Shah (1964). “The Sufis”, Anchor Books

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• Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

  Virender Sehwag

  Sports, Role Models, Today

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• I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Cake, Rejection, Pieces

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• No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

  Norman Rockwell

  Men, Illustration, Feelings

  "Fusion Book 1, Enhanced Edition: Integrated Reading and Writing, Book 1". Book by Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer, John Van Rys, Patrick Sebranek (p. 202), January 2014.

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• The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

  Bill Veeck

  Spring, Sound, Balls

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  I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

  Hank Aaron

  Smile, Baseball, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

  Lou Brock

  Perfect, Battle, Want

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• It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Player, Lasts

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