Bats Quotes - Page 6

• Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

  C. S. Lewis

  Angel, Men, Birds Wings

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

  Duke Snider

  Team, Games, Feet

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• And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Ms Dhoni, Watches, Pay

  "Dhoni’s Different From Me: Gilchrist". www.bcci.tv. December 31, 2014.

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• What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Taken, Opportunity, Play

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• We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Eyelashes, Names

  David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Girl, Baseball, Guy

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• Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Baseball, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 02, 2015

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• Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.

  Gerald Durrell

  Mother, Uncles, Cat

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• It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

  Chase Utley

  Barrels

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• They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Song, Night

  Enid Blyton (2016). “The Secret Island”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat.

  J. K. Rowling

  Aunt, Talking, Giving

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• This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No." "You don't live in a crypt and you can't turn into a bat, but you have to have an invitation to enter a house?" Abby hissed. A reluctant amusement softened the flat eyes. "You wanted me to be vampirish." "Not when it's inconvenient.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Home, Eye, House

  Alexandra Ivy (2012). “When Darkness Comes”, p.225, Zebra Books

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• Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall. "Never in my life!" Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. "Against the rules! Irresponsible!" "Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll—I'll terminus you, buddy!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Talking, Apples

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• Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Phones, Library, Slim

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.173, Del Rey

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• I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Use, Statistics

  Washington Post On Bandwagon, Reagan Seeks to Stiffen Credibility Grip 20 April 1980 (A8)

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• You don't think I can fight." Tessa said, drawing back and matching his silvery gaze with her own. "Because I'm a girl." "I don't think you can fight because you're wearing a wedding dress", said Jem. "For what it's worth, I don't think Will could fight in that dress either." "Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat'a. "But I would make a radiant bride.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Fighting, Thinking

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• Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Ears, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Bubba was the one person who wouldn’t even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an “imaginary” friend. Heck, he’d probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eyelashes, Talking, Play

  FaceBook post by Sherrilyn Kenyon from Apr 10, 2013

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• To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

  Daniel Handler

  Butterfly, Montana, Poet

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill". Book by Daniel Handler, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2000.

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• Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his black T-shirt and jeans, that wicked silver skull ring on his finger, and the Stygian sword at his side. His tufts of black hair struck up in curls like baby bat wings. His eyes were sad and kind of empty, as if he’d stared into the depths of Tartarus—which he had.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Kids, Eye

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• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

  John Kruk

  Baseball, Crazy, Thinking

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• You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

  Dale Long

  Baseball, Boys, Men

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• Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

  Dick Gregory

  Baseball, Humorous, Men

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• When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Upset, Gum, Gloves

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