Ted Williams
Baseball Player
"The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely."
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Bats
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Prince Philip
Royalty
"A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman."
Adam West
Actor
"Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!"
Lindsey Graham
Politician
"My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?"
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"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat."
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"Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself."
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"I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?"
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"Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it."
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"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'."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."
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"On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily."
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"I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats."
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"Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated."
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"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."
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"I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats."
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"The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!"
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"When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool."
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"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."
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