Top 100 Quotes About Bats
#1. I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)
Woody Allen
#2. The bats stop flying above and the moon stands still. He commands the air and the sky and my body.
Eliza Freed
#5. If perception were reality, bats could fly through cave walls.
Marty Rubin
#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
#7. Holy bejeezus," Lula said, eyes bugged out, looking at the building. "This is scaring the crap out of me. This is like where Dracula would live if he didn't have any money and was a crack-head. I bet it's filled with rabid bats and killer snakes and hairy spiders as big as dinner plated.
Janet Evanovich
#8. Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.
Eric Schlosser
#9. Everything you have ever read about vampires - most of it is inaccurate or downright false. We are not beautiful, we don't turn into bats, we don't shrivel up in the sunlight and we are most definitely not afraid of something as fickle as garlic.
K.A. Poe
#10. So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.
J.G. Ballard
#11. During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
Mickey Mantle
#12. If I sneezed, writers' vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.
Dennis Vickers
#13. All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.
Jim Brosnan
#14. I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
Catherynne M Valente
#15. Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. we played until dark. we played until the streetlights lit up court. we played until the bats swooped down at our heads. we played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky.
we didn't keep score.
Sherman Alexie
#16. My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.
Dave Eggers
#17. When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.
Luke Wilson
#18. The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
Ted Williams
#19. Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair
Tangling in the tide's green fall
Now fold their wings like bats and disappear
Into the attic of the skull.
Sylvia Plath
#20. Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you'll ask, 'Why are bats furry?
Kelley Armstrong
#21. She switched the headlamp on and saw bats clinging to the side of the cave inches from her face. Someone whimpered. She supposed it was her. She switched the lamp off and played out the rope, dropping more slowly, trying to control the whimpering.
Janet Evanovich
#22. The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.
Charlie Kaufman
#23. I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.
Garrett Atkins
#24. Her eyes were dark, corrupt, fathomless and all of that other evil crap. Mostly all of that other evil crap.
Fred Barnett
#25. When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
Joe Torre
#26. were rabid, foaming bats blindly cleaving the air around his head. And it seemed that every few steps he would run straight into a twister of mosquitoes. Though he had been paid a large amount of cash up front, he was seriously considering increasing his daily fee on this one.
David Baldacci
#27. Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.
Luke Evans
#28. I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
Kenneth Oppel
#29. Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.
Chase Utley
#30. Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
Michael Hussey
#32. Myth: Vampires can shapeshift into bats at will.
Truth: Who would want to turn into a giant bat?
Wait, don't answer that.
Kimberly Pauley
#33. Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Sydney Madwed
#34. Oh, no! I promise it's not human," Mom bats her hands in the air in an effort to wrangle them back into their seats. "It's newborn calf."
"Oh, Hon, we don't do baby legs neither.
Addison Moore
#35. I remembered I had tickets that Susan Blond gave me to the rock kid who ate the heads off bats, Ozzy Osbourne,...
Andy Warhol
#36. It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.
Chase Utley
#37. Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
#38. Everybody has bad at-bats
except McCutchen.
Kirk Gibson
#39. Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.
Ken Dodd
#40. A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.
T. S. Eliot
#41. There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.
Stan Musial
#42. I don't like letters. Any dark past is a vampire, feeding on the blood of the living moment, and letters are the bats.
Gregory David Roberts
#43. If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?
Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh
#44. And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.
Pope Francis
#45. [W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is synonymous with screwing up.
Kathryn Schulz
#46. The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat,
Mushfiqur Rahim
#47. And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.
Adam Gilchrist
#48. A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.
Marv Levy
#49. I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.
Lloyd Alexander
#50. The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.
Mike Lowell
#51. Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.
Tim Hudson
#52. I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.
Min-sik Choi
#53. Winds shake the leaves and for a moment I smell smoke. I concentrate on the scent, but it vanishes into the aroma of rain and tree bark, the way one life can collapse into another and different people can stir within the same body, like bats thrashing inside a secret hollow.
Laura Van Den Berg
#54. I can't say Ah now?"
"No," I say sternly.
"Even if it's purely innocent? A genuine Ah? Not even that?" He makes a pleading face. It looks silly on him; he's never been the pleading type.
He bats his cinnamon lashes once. "Not even ... "
I try not to laugh.
He keeps the face going and
Carolyn Crane
#55. Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
Amy Waldman
#56. I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.
Scott Rolen
#57. People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
Bob Uecker
#58. When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.
Kenneth Oppel
#59. 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
#60. Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us.
A.J. Orde
#61. 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
#63. Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat.
Terry Francona
#64. Elizabeth served herself to Vlad upon the Lazy Susan (Susan wasn't lazy. She was actually dead." - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#65. Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
Diane Ackerman
#66. Grrrrowpt." said dead Penelope. Dead Huthbert nodded, and hugged her.
She moved his dusty hand from her dusty ass." - BATS 2015
Fred Barnett
#67. Plutarch gave her nine languages, including Hebrew and Troglodyte, an Ethiopian tongue that - if Herodotus can be believed - was unlike that of any other people; it sounds like the screeching of bats.
Stacy Schiff
#68. Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.
Joel Osteen
#69. You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.
Jim Thome
#70. The butterflies in my stomach turn into vampire bats as we pull up to the school.
Cat Clarke
#71. Humans are fragile. Bats are tough and almost impossible to get rid of. Ask any exterminator
Richard Myerscough
#72. Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.
Lata Mangeshkar
#73. Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless..
J.K. Rowling
#74. We was used to each other in the way I s'pose two old bats can get used to hangin upside-down next to each other in the same cave, even though they're a long way from what you'd call the best of friends.
Stephen King
#75. I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
Billie Jean King
#76. If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.
Andrew Flintoff
#77. I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.
C. J. Wilson
#78. Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!
Dylan Moran
#79. If the goddess - and that would be me, by the way - is displeased, you'll get bats in your hair and mice in your boots.
Cherise Sinclair
#80. Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
Horace
#81. He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself. The water sloshed in the font.
Terry Pratchett
#82. 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.
#83. People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.
Jimmy Rollins
#84. I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.
Julia Stiles
#87. Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.
Mick Miller
#88. But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.
Robert Pyle
#89. Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.
Tony La Russa
#90. There are more than nine hundred species of bats, a figure that represents almost a quarter of all mammal species on earth,
Christopher Dewdney
#91. You're going to show up to a duel, in the street, wearing Come F - k Me Heels?" - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#92. It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.
Chase Utley
#93. Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
Harsha Bhogle
#94. If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#95. Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.
Paul Stamets
#96. When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.
Walt Disney
#97. She could feel something unnatural following her every movement as she washed her bountiful Huzza and Wahzoozie" - BATS
Fred Barnett
#98. Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.
Gene Logsdon
#99. I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.
Bill Bryson
#100. Treats and tricks.
Witch broomsticks.
Jack-o-lanterns
Lick their lips.
Crows and cats.
Vampire bats.
Capes and fangs
And pointed hats.
Werewolves howl.
Phantoms prowl.
Halloween's
Upon us now.
Richelle E. Goodrich
