Top 100 Quotes About Bat
#1. It was time to confront the old bat with the damage she'd caused this time. Then, he promised himself, he'd strangle her for meddling in affairs that were none of her business, and kidnapping a goddamn innocent fairy.
Eden Ashe
#3. 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
#4. And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.
James Denton
#5. There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
Lily King
#6. The Bat sets free - The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn
Rudyard Kipling
#7. The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.
Shel Silverstein
#8. I think it's important to see that, as an audience member, because a lot of times you pass judgement on people, right off the bat, depending on whatever they're involved in or the people they surround themselves with, or something like that.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#9. Hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment.
Lemony Snicket
#10. I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks.
Abraham Verghese
#11. Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
Amy Poehler
#12. I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such a name. I'm sure he must've thought that was quite funny. He must've known from that autograph, right off the bat, that I had no idea who he was.
Shania Twain
#13. You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You're sacking them. You're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.
Deacon Jones
#14. They smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that sweet voice, 'Stay.
Scotty McCreery
#16. I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
J. J. Hardy
#17. Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
Stan Musial
#18. 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
#19. A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.
Jack Canfield
#20. I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat.
Bill Terry
#21. The Bat Phone to the Universe, some kind of Iva-only, open-round-the-clock special channel to the divine.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#22. I dont know about happily ever after ... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought..
Francesca Lia Block
#23. 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
#24. Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It's enough to drive you bat shit crazy.
Shane Kuhn
#25. Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.
Marshall Sylver
#26. Depending on how he gripped the ball and how hard he threw it, Satchel Paige had pitches that included the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin' ball.
Buck O'Neil
#27. 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
#28. I'm a succubus."
He shook his head. "No, you aren't."
"Yes, I am."
"You aren't."
I was a bit surprised to be having this conversation. "I am too."
"No. Succubi are flame-eyed and bat-winged. Everyone knows that. They don't wear jeans and sweaters.
Richelle Mead
#29. The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
Bill Veeck
#30. It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.
Ozzy Osbourne
#31. Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on.
Tommy Lee
#32. The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.
Jerry Coleman
#33. Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble
William Shakespeare
#34. I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
Mickey Mantle
#35. It doesn't happen like this! Everybody, you put him in a death trap, he pulls something outta his utility belt and he's away. Same bat time, same bat channel.
Neil Gaiman
#37. His first fall, but the trip was much shorter on a bat. Before he knew
Suzanne Collins
#38. Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.
Emo Philips
#39. This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him - you kick him until he passes out - then beat him over the head with a baseball bat - then roll him up in an old rug - and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!
Michael Scanlon
#40. Hell,' Shane spit in disgust. 'I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.' He tossed her the bat.
Rachel Caine
#41. I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself,
Viv Richards
#42. May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath The
Andrzej Sapkowski
#43. My bat mitzvah portion is about many things, but I think it is primarily about who we are wholly there for, and how that, more than anything else, defines our identity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#44. Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.
Ichiro Suzuki
#45. 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
#46. I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala!
Skee-Lo
#47. I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat with the best of them. I can partition a hard drive in FAT32
But why would I want to?
Douglas Rushkoff
#48. 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
#49. When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
Pete Rose
#50. I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.
Leighton Meester
#51. Jason decided there was nothing in the world scarier than a gang of bat-wielding grannies.
Rick Riordan
#52. Phrases and images from the game filtered through his head... hitting the sweet spot, working the rosin bag, over the bat, going deep, in the hole, double header, baseball was a filthy, dirty sport!
J.D. Ruskin
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
Samuel Johnson
#56. When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat.
W. G. Grace
#58. 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
#59. You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.
Chase Utley
#60. 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
#61. If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something.
Shawn Amos
#62. You've either bat-shit insane or you've watched too many movies. This isn't Star Wars, Mandel. I'm not Luke Skywalker. My dad's not Darth Vader. And you sure as hell aren't my Obi-Wan.
Kirsten Miller
#63. Next time you want to hit me
hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!
Stephenie Meyer
#64. The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
Joe DiMaggio
#66. If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.
Louis Tomlinson
#67. and was now bending over the golden effigy of a bat, perhaps Zotz, the Underworld god.
Deborah Jackson
#68. 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
#69. My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.
A.S. King
#70. Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
Irvine Welsh
#71. If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.
Paul Waner
#72. If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.
Brian Lara
#73. -Bumblebee bat, how do you see at night?
-I make a squeaky sound that bounces back from whatever it hits. I see by hearing.
Darrin Lunde
#74. Not for the first time, I wondered if my entire family tree was bat-shit crazy.
Pepper Winters
#75. Omygod, I haven't got years. I'll have to hide in the Bat Cave."
"Once you go to the Bat Cave it's forever, babe."
Eeek.
Janet Evanovich
#76. 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
#77. Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#78. Jones paused, reached into his sleeve, and pulled out a cigarette. "But I can't help but think that I'm taking advice from a grunt that's more fucked up than a left handed football bat.
B. Rockow
#79. 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
#80. Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.
Kim Raver
#81. I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.
Gloria Steinem
#82. His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.
Irvine Welsh
#83. Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.
Troy Glaus
#84. Another tip to weld society together. Give the person up to bat at the ATM plenty of space so they're not nervous about you peeking at their PIN number or slipping a blade between their ribs the second the money spits out.
Tim Dorsey
#85. Welcome it as part of a process ... you just can't avoid it ... if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.
Peter Guber
#86. When life throws you lemons ... grab a bat and swing hard!
Kimberly McKay
#87. At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.
Nas
#88. Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.
R.C. Robertson-Glasgow
#89. Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.
Ian Botham
#90. Hedge scrambled away, but the first two skeletons grabbed his arms and lifted him off the ground. The coach dropped his bat and kicked his hooves. "Lemme go, ya stupid boneheads!" he bellowed.
Rick Riordan
#91. You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.
Mike Trout
#92. I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.
Donald Bradman
#94. One guy wore nothing but a Speedo. He'd painted himself blue and was armed only with a baseball bat. Across his chest were the words COME AT ME, BRO.
Rick Riordan
#95. A dutiful son has to remember not to slouch or swear or, in Hamlet's case, murder the old bat.
Mark Forsyth
#96. 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
#97. Wind warns November's done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.
Sylvia Plath
#98. Great," mumbles Kelly. "Bat stew cooked on a bat shit fire by an old bat.
Philip Webb
#99. One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
James Caan
#100. Drop the bat, mister, or I'll fill you so full of lead the undertaker will charge double to bury you!
Karen Witemeyer
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