I don't want to say Monsanto is evil right off the bat, but why is Monsanto so evil? - Bill Maher
Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving. - Jayleigh Cape
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
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
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. - W. Somerset Maugham
No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done. - Garth Ennis
Nous possédons tous le même sang rouge et dans la poitrine de chacun bat un même muscle, le myocarde que, dans toutes les langues mais avec des mots différents, nous appelons le coeur. - Albahari, David
These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye... - Angela Carter