Top 100 Quotes About Bats
#1. Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
Norm Cash
#2. Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.
Jim Butcher
#3. Depart, Satan,' she said, with a complete lack of enthusiasm. - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#4. I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven's wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour
Alice Hoffman
#5. It turns out, from what I hear, that roasted fruit bats are delicious.
Richard Preston
#6. I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.
Mark Teixeira
#7. I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.
Harbhajan Singh
#8. A dehoy who was terribly hobble,
Cast only stones that were cobble
And bats that were ding,
From a shot that was sling,
But never hit inks that were bobble.
James Thurber
#9. Long ago, bats had been a symbol of good luck, but over the years they had come to symbolize safe travels through the darkness of space.
Marissa Meyer
#10. We can shape-shift whenever we like."
She made a face. "You mean all those hideous stories are true? Rats and bats and slimy worm things?"
"Now, why would I want to be a slimy worm thing?" He was openly laughing. The sound startled him; he couldn't remember laughing aloud.
Christine Feehan
#11. 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
#12. By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
John Logan
#13. Well, there they were, the masters of the earth, canned like tuna on wheels and blind as bats, their heads full of mischief and their newspapers of blood.
Salman Rushdie
#14. Remember that conversation is like ping pong. You say something, she says something. Then you respond to something she's just said, then she bats it back. You ask her a question. She replies. Do you get the idea?
Sue Townsend
#15. I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.
Don Bluth
#16. When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.
Philip Ridley
#17. The last thing I wanted was my embarrassing death by fruit bats posted on YouTube.
Rick Riordan
#19. Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon
#20. Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.
Stephen Rodrick
#21. For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Barry Svrluga
#22. Lies of that nature could be waiting around in the corners of a person's mind, hanging like bats in the corners, waiting to take advantage of any kind of darkness.
Alice Munro
#24. There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.
Paul Broun
#25. They plunged through heavy walls of sound, mountains of archaic thought, valleys of mood music, bad shoe sessions and footling bats and suddenly heard a girl's voice.
Douglas Adams
#26. He didn't like the way things were going.
There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.
Stephen King
#27. My mouth went dry.
My vagina bats fluttered.
My Carly-cave collapsed. Fuck. F.U.C.K. Fuck.
K.M. Golland
#28. They're dogs. Never trust a man. Even when he's dead. Especially when he's dead. - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#29. Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
And disgustingly upside down.
Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
And grinning in their sleep.
Bats!
D.H. Lawrence
#30. When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.
Peter Lynch
#31. 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
#32. If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?
Prince Philip
#34. The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude Debussy
#35. I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.
Suresh Raina
#37. I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra
#38. The best kinds of friends don't say I'm here for you, they grab their bats and say let's do this shit.
L. Ann Marie
#40. You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.
Giancarlo Stanton
#41. I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.
Richie Allen
#42. Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
James A. Garfield
#43. Did you hear that?" Casper said.
"Bats," Cheyenne replied.
Casper gasped with horror. "You know I hate bats," he hissed.
"Bats bats bats bats bats," Cheyenne said.
"Stop it! We're not kids anymore!" Casper shouted.
"This way, Braveheart.
Peter Lerangis
#44. The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.
Dan Uggla
#45. All boys are swines. They snog you and dump you. Or lick your face. Or put bats in your mouth.
Louise Rennison
#46. At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day....
Anne Sexton
#47. Why do I have the compulsion to caution you strenuously against going up those stairs, Windham? Perhaps you'll be swarmed by bats or set upon by little ghoulies with crossbows." "Oh, for God's sake, what could be hiding in an empty old carriage house?" ***
Grace Burrowes
#48. Elizabeth poured the brewskilicious foam over her aforementioned bodalicious huzza-huzzas and Wahwahzoozie." - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#49. Mountain bats, those massive serpentine creatures of myth. Those ancient scavengers of the battlefield.
Susan Dennard
#50. If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.
Morgan Ensberg
#51. Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.
Ian Fleming
#52. Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
John Berryman
#53. I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.
Torii Hunter
#54. That's advanced capitalism for you: The player making the maximum capital investment gets the maximum critical information in order to reap the maximum desired profit with maximum capital efficiency - and nobody bats an eye.
Haruki Murakami
#55. 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
#56. The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
Sylvia Plath
#57. Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
Christopher Titus
#58. The more you say goodbye, the stupider you'll feel when we're blitzed as bats at the victory party.
Meg Merriet
#59. Will you follow me, Darsal? Will you Silvie? Will you both follow me to hell and back because two fuzzy white bats told me you should?
Ted Dekker
#60. Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.
Dick Stuart
#61. Do it for the kids! The ones who look up to you - especially when they are pleading for their lives." - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#62. I now know what Sachin Tendulkar feels every time he bats in India.
Adam Gilchrist
#63. ...an ambitious array of dishonorable intentions that he intended to wield upon the Countess's nether regions. - BATS 2015
Fred Barnett
#64. I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.
Alice Hoffman
#65. We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.
Cynthia Moss
#66. At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
By the Ponte Vecchio ...
Changing guard.
D.H. Lawrence
#67. 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
#68. I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms ... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
Theodore Roethke
#69. That tingle in the brain is called a word.
It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.
Kate Kearns
#70. I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.
Roberto Alomar
#71. I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another - bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
Karen Russell
#72. We won't be able to sleep without the sound of her self-loathing orgasms crying out into the night." - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#73. When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
Pete Rose
#75. What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats.
Cory Doctorow
#76. Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?"
"A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!"
"Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?"
"Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!
Rick Riordan
#77. Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.
Bram Stoker
#78. For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle.
#79. Nora said, "I thought vampires drank virgin blood. They hypnotize ... they turn into bats ... " Setrakian said, "They are much romanticized. But the truth is more ... how should I say?" "Perverse," said Eph. "Disgusting," said Nora.
Guillermo Del Toro
#80. I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests
Matthew Hayden
#81. I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and I Says.
No more the Anglicized Percy, I.
I am now Taimur Hind.
Kamila Shamsie
#82. I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.
Norm Cash
#83. He sniffed until the long hairs of his mustache had been sucked up into his nose and out of his leafy ears." - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#84. The psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on
Charles Bukowski
#85. White-flowered shrubs thickened around her and so did sleep; it directed her limbs. Lie down now, sleep said sweetly. Lie down. These are the secret hours of the day, the time that owls and bats take to themselves. The stars change places now; let them. You lie down.
Helen Oyeyemi
#86. Purrrrrrrr" Elizabeth kneaded Vlad's pecs. "I hear a Kitty!" Vlad's eyes sprung open. There was a moment of hurt, of sad. There was no kitty. "You're teasing me!" - Bats
Fred Barnett
#87. The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck.
You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.
Christine Feehan
#89. I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.
Bob Uecker
#90. People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together.
David Quammen
#91. I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
Bob Uecker
#92. They are only bats, nothing more," Mother said.
Father whispered to me alone, "These are no ordinary bats. These are mice who swim with the stars.
Eowyn Ivey
#93. He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. "I think I'm more Batman," he said. "You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler." "Geek." His smile widened. "You say the nicest things. Haven't you heard? Geeks run the world now." -BLACK DAWN
Rachel Caine
#94. Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
Wolcott Gibbs
#95. She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are.
Katherine Applegate
#96. I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around.
Ann Coulter
#97. He picked up one of the dead bats and covered it with his handkerchief. 'Somebody's mother,' he murmured reverently.
P.G. Wodehouse
#98. You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
Robin Yount
#99. You stand in a dark room and grow a tree in your chest.
The color pink is your national anthem.
You have fled the burning city, but your pocket smolders.
He bats his eyelids and dust flies.
You are a well trying to quench its own thirst,
a tiger licking its bloody paw.
Karen Finneyfrock
#100. So bleary with jet lag that she could not sleep or make any sense in conversation, and feeling that her brain was a haunted house in which bats flew randomly from one attic beam to another,
Charles Baxter
