Top 100 Quotes About A Bat
#1. Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness
D.H. Lawrence
#2. Sometimes I feared I'd turn into a bat myself, stuck up there night and day, scrathing away. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#3. My wild heart craves shadows. Like a bat unfurling its wings, I open myself to darkness; I open myself to truth.
Nichole McElhaney
#4. Green Lantern: "What are your powers anyway? You can't fly."
Batman: "No."
Green Lantern: "Super-strength?"
Batman: "No."
Green Lantern: "Hold on a second ... You're not just some guy in a bat costume, are you? Are you freaking kidding me?!
Geoff Johns
#5. The order Chiroptera (the "hand-wing" creatures) encompasses 1,116 species, which amounts to 25 percent of all the recognized species of mammals. To say again: One in every four species of mammal is a bat. Such
David Quammen
#6. Oh kid, it's all about confidence. That's the whole shebang right there. Whatever you do, do it with your nuts. That's how Ruth swung a bat-with his nuts. Court a girl, rob a bank, brush your teeth, do it with and from your God-given nuts or don't do it at all.
J.R. Moehringer
#7. Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
Cassandra Clare
#8. Please, please, for the love of trolls and other blessed creatures, stop wandering around in the forest like yer a bat instead of a wee lady!
Amy Harmon
#9. A friend will help you if someone knocks you down. A best friend will pick up a bat and say, Stay down. I got this.
Darynda Jones
#10. I stared at him. You're a bat, Rudi! She's a mermaid. What were you thinking?
Charles Stross
#11. A bat flies straight towards my face. it gives me a perfect view of of possibly one of the ugliest creatures alive. It has long ears and what looks like a piece of salad on the end of its nose. I'm being attacked by Master Yoda with wings!
J.E. Fison
#12. Up in front, Fritz, as his name was, was driving like a bat out of hell - not exactly something you expected from a butler who looked like he was seven thousand years old.
J.R. Ward
#13. What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil's point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel's 1974 paper, 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' There's a subjective character of experience that's never captured in reductive accounts. Know what I mean?'
'Um ... Sure.
Steven James
#14. Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.
Jayleigh Cape
#15. (At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.)
Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it's a bat cave. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. His subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat
Donna Tartt
#17. It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.
Ted Williams
#18. The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.
Lewis H. Lapham
#19. Bella, I love you, kid, he said in case she could hear. Fear brushed the walls of his chest, circling inside him like a bat in a house. Then he got hold of it. He wanted to get something for her, anything, but he did not want her to feel him let go of her hand.
Thomas Harris
#20. Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.
Koushun Takami
#21. The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron
#22. With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.
Gideon Defoe
#23. When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.
Jennie Finch
#24. I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.
Jessica White
#25. I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.
Dizzy Dean
#26. Batman: One more thing. When you find something out, you can call me on this.
Commissioner Gordan: A cell phone with one button?
Batman: A bat signal.
Commissioner Gordan: Christ. He actually put a bat on it.
Geoff Johns
#27. Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!
Jon Jones
#28. I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but other African-American players. Hopefully, they pick up a bat and a ball and go out there and play.
Dontrelle Willis
#29. I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
Ozzy Osbourne
#31. A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things.
Jeff VanderMeer
#33. Nicu: It's not fair! Everybody has fangs but me, and I can't even turn into a bat properly. Sometimes when I try I end up as a sparrow!
Elias Zapple
#34. I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year's it flew away.
Milton Berle
#35. No outcome is certain, even when it seems so. Fates can change with the swing of a bat, or the flip of a switch, or the closing of a circuit.
It all came down to how far you dared to go to accomplish what the world thinks can't be done.
Neal Shusterman
#36. When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.
Eddie Mathews
#37. I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
Suzy Kassem
#38. What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
Christian Bale
#39. Hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump!
Lewis Carroll
#40. When I wasn't working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming!
Lea Michele
#41. I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
Early Wynn
#42. I also don't turn into a bat or sparkle in the sun. Hollywood's portrayal of vampires is almost as accurate as its portrayal of prostitution in Pretty Woman.
Kerry Allen
#43. I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
Hank Aaron
#44. I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
P.L. Travers
#45. The northern girl. Winterfell's daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leathery wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window.
George R R Martin
#46. Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat
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'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.
Iris Murdoch
#47. 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
#48. A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#49. I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
Lefty Gomez
#50. What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.
Rodney Dangerfield
#51. What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?
Thomas Nagel
#52. Great," mumbles Kelly. "Bat stew cooked on a bat shit fire by an old bat.
Philip Webb
#53. Needless to say, I thought it was a bat-shit crazy idea (that's the technical term). The last thing I wanted was to reprise my role as Livvie's captor. - Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#54. But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.
Roy Peter Clark
#55. I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.
Lizzy Caplan
#56. I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.
Donald Bradman
#57. When life throws you lemons ... grab a bat and swing hard!
Kimberly McKay
#58. I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.
Jordin Sparks
#59. I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
Babe Ruth
#60. There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#61. 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
#62. Sound ... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't ... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.
DJ Spooky
#63. I think the oldest comic I got when I was a kid was an issue of 'World's Finest' - it had a Neal Adams cover with Batman where he had turned into a bat, and he was attacking Superman.
Jason Aaron
#64. In lieu of Tasers, you'll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I'll turn into a bat to get away from you."
"Fight or flight."
"Yes."
"Only half of that is flight.
Adam Rex
#65. There's something in there," Matt said. "Something alive. It punched me."
"Punched you?" Baldwin's face screwed up. "Are you sure a bat didn't fly into you? I bet there are a few in there."
Matt rubbed his tender jaw. "Unless its name is Bruce Wayne, that wasn't a bat.
K.L. Armstrong
#66. and was now bending over the golden effigy of a bat, perhaps Zotz, the Underworld god.
Deborah Jackson
#68. I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.
Rogers Hornsby
#69. The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.
Chili Davis
#70. A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.
Andrew Flintoff
#71. The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.
Ozzy Osbourne
#72. I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala!
Skee-Lo
#73. I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.
AB De Villiers
#74. His first fall, but the trip was much shorter on a bat. Before he knew
Suzanne Collins
#75. Tara (Lipinski) got out there like a bat out of hell and skated her guts out. Michelle skated very well, but she skated conservatively. She skated great, just not fantastic. That was the difference.
Frank Carroll
#76. I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
Joe Torre
#77. A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.
Jack Canfield
#78. Whatever the hell was going on with this guy, he reminded Harley of a rat. Harley hated rats. It made him want to whack the dude in the face with a bat.
Amy Cook
#80. Hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment.
Lemony Snicket
#81. The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
Zack Snyder
#82. X? Seriously? What, do you meet them in darkened parking garages? Do you have a Bat-Signal or something?
Jane Seville
#83. Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#84. more humorous looks. One I noticed actually had been carved into a bat holding a ghost. Artistic, I thought to myself knowing I would never be able to duplicate that. Greg and I walked through the double
Janet McNulty
#85. If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.
Donna Tartt
#86. Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.
Ozzy Osbourne
#87. It was strange to be outside on a summer's evening. Rachel breathed in the scent of the delicate white flowers on the star jasmine and looked up at the sky. She saw what at first she thought was a bird, then realised it was a bat, and beyond that, in the sky, she saw thousands of stars.
Mary Grand
#88. His faith was like the radar of a bat, it took him through the darkness that surrounded him. It would guide him through everything that evil would throw at him. When his body gave up, God's powers lifted him up and kept his heart thumping.
Mark A. Cooper
#89. Luck is stupid as a cow and blind as a bat.
Toby Barlow
#90. Recognition hit Victoria like an unexpected encounter with a bat.
Lynn Raye Harris
#91. He was also a terrific baseball player. That's what had helped him refine his waist: tens of thousands of reps twisting to swing a bat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#92. It was impossible to have a conversation in a room with a phone. It was like having a conversation in a room with a bat hanging from the ceiling. Even if the bat was asleep, how were you supposed to think about anything else or look at anything else?
Joe Hill
#93. My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
Rodney Dangerfield
#94. Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey.
Jeremy Roenick
#95. 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
#96. Since I can't turn into a bat and fly, I'll still need my bus pass
Daven Anderson
#97. If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.
Andrew Flintoff
#98. As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.
Aimee Bender
#99. You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
Chili Davis
#100. I feel like, when I arrive at the hospital, I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back and I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat.
Kristen Bell
