Quotes & Sayings About Bats The Animal

How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest. — Joe Posnanski

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle. — George Hearst

Now there were plenty of words to describe the kind of rippling muscle perfection that greeted me. Jacked. Ripped. Built. Drool-worthy. Man candy. God damn! But the most appropriate seemed to be: holy fucking shit. — Jessica Gadziala

They didn't think there was anything very odd in anyone being a little odd. — James Hilton

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery. — Vance Havner

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. — Benoit Mandelbrot

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times. — Frank Caliendo

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper. — Amanda Hocking

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see ... be your son. — Harmon Killebrew

I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf. — Brian Grazer

By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love. — Venkatesananda Saraswati

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat? — Thomas Nagel

If I survive this, I can't go back. I'll have to move forward and I don't know what that means. — C.J. Roberts

[T]he form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer model. That model will be designed, in evolution, for its suitability for useful internal representation, irrespective of the physical stimuli that come to it from outside. Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space. The fact that bats construct their internal model with the aid of echoes, while we construct ours with the aid of light, is irrelevant. — Richard Dawkins

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward. — Ambrose Bierce