Bats Quotes - Page 21

• So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Giants, Paradise

  J. G. Ballard (1965). “The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere”

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• You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.

  Brett Lee

  Thinking, Two, Balls

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• Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Simplicity, Brain

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• I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

  Barry Bonds

  Thinking, Balls, Catching

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• When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Autographs

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• Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

  Timothy Leary

  Mistake, Years, Two

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• Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

  Maya Angelou

  Baseball, Long, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Children, Humor

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Hardest, Things To Do

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• The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
  He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
  And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
  And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
  Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
  The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
  And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
  But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.

  Ernest Thayer

  Summer, Children, Hate

  Ernest Lawrence Thayer (2007). “Casey at the Bat: The Billion Dollar Contract”, p.4, Benchmark Education Company

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• Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Thinking, Squares

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• When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Snakes, Wings

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• I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

  Bill Bryson

  Player, Hands, Games

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• For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it's more likely to be processed rather than a whole food.

  Michael Pollan

  Firsts, Claims, Packages

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.8, Penguin

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• I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat. "Ow!" he screamed. Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me." "Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson." He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely." "Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.

  Rachel Vail

  Baby, Hurt, Hands

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• You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow.

  Rachel Vail

  Planning, Minnie Mouse, Yeah

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• To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.

  Jamie Sives

  Integrity, Lying, Talking

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• People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Talking, People, Giving

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.463, Baen Books

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• Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck." "If you don't like it, Nephilim," came Magnus's voice, faintly, from the truck cab, "you're welcome to see if you can walk on the water.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Team, Valentine

  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.740, Simon and Schuster

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• When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Children, Home

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5073, NYU Press

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• Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

  Walter Besant

  Letting Go, Blood, Vampire

  Besant, Walter (2014). “Dorothy Forster”, p.73, Read Books Ltd

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• Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

  Edd Roush

  Swings, Bunting, Balls

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