Bats Quotes - Page 8

• The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Eye, Feet, Meat

  "Klaxons: Surfing the Void". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 27, 2010.

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• The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Hung

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• 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

  Mind, Care, Bitter

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• Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Whales, People

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• 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

  Fun, Accessories, Elbows

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Baseball, Kicking, Cliffs

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• The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

  Vanessa Bayer

  Weekend, Mitzvah, Bars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.

  Mike Piazza

  Confused, Games, Trying

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• I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!

  Emily Watson

  Country, Rain, Mean

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• 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

  Glasses, Bird, Sound

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy.

  Lindsey Graham

  Crazy, Party, Expletives

  "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.msnbc.com. February 26, 2016.

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• As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.

  Lou Boudreau

  Baseball, Morning, Spring

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• 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

  Enough Time, Welcome, Success And Failure

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• I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings [Australia] McDonald's.

  Gotye

  Girl, Coffee, Home

  "Gotye Braces For Stateside Success With 'Somebody That I Used To Know'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. February 9, 2012.

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• 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

  Fighting, Dark, Knights

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• Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.

  E. O. Wilson

  Butterfly, Eight, Orchids

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• My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Long, Silence, Awkward

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• In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

  Barry Lyga

  Baseball, Team, Men

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while

  Greg Chappell

  One Day, Stumps

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• I first met Taylor Swift at an awards show, which is a pretty easy place to suss out who is cool. Right off the bat I was like, This is a person I want to know. Just because she's a very famous person doesn't mean she doesn't exist outside of that space. She's wonderful and special and treats me really nicely and we have a great, mature relationship. She's on a short list of people like that for me.

  Jack Antonoff

  Mean, Space, Awards

  "I'm the Only Dude in a Girl Squad". www.elle.com. June 8, 2015.

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• It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Responsibility, Shoes

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• 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

  Cracks, Machines, Bowling

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer.

  Shane Warne

  Fall, People, Appreciate

  "Sachin Tendulkar survived pressure of expectation to unite a nation" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2013.

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• All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

  Jim Brosnan

  Spring, Suggestions, Coaches

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• Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!

  Michael Vaughan

  Play, Australia, Communicate

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