Batted Around Quotes

#1. If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Babe Ruth

#2. Get focused on arranging to survive so that we can do more than just get batted around by crazy people, desperate people, thugs, and leaders who don't know what they're doing!" She

Octavia E. Butler

#3. For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Ewan McGregor

#4. I laughed at his honesty. I like people who say what they are thinking. No need to guess and try strain your nonexistent psychic abilities.

Mary Whitten

#5. I'm giving you my Bible answers. I'm not well educated.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#6. I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

Nik Wallenda

#7. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.

Patrick Henry

#8. Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

Aleister Crowley

#10. How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.

James Richardson

#11. It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.

Alison Croggon

#12. I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

Ray Lamontagne

#13. My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

Catherine Stock

#14. The guy said, "Hop in the back." He craned around in his seat and batted stray items aside. Reacher opened the door and slid in and used his hip to finish the job. He closed the door and the woman hit the gas and they took off, cruising easy through the last thirty-some miles of America.

Lee Child

#15. I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."

Winona Ryder