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Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. -- Joaquin Miller
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. -- John Donne
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. -- John Updike
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. -- Al Leiter
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist. -- Alvin Dark
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. -- Ty Cobb
Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it. -- Satchel Paige
You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks. -- James Vincent McMorrow
The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing. -- Chili Davis
I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world. -- Billy Graham
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game. -- Wayne Gretzky
My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter. -- Pud Galvin
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity. -- Abigail Spencer
We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball. -- Jason Dufner
In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit. -- Billy Beane
Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags. -- Akshay Kumar
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting. -- Jerry Coleman
We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. -- Ann Druyan
What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time. -- Grover Cleveland Alexander
When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher. -- Rogers Hornsby
When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble. -- Dan Uggla
When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball. -- Pete Rose
If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them. -- Andrew Flintoff
The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it. -- Pharoahe Monch
If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball. -- Pedro Martinez
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. -- Edmund Waller
I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best. -- Pablo Francisco
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner. -- George Eliot
Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat. -- J. Lynn
Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got. -- Jeremy Bonderman
I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally. -- Rich Donnelly
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. -- Carl Sandburg
Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love? -- George Carlin
No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client. -- Ray Kroc
I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches. -- Jason Bay
I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problemsâ?¦ or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable. -- Kelley Armstrong
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. -- Anton Chekhov
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days. -- Robert Anderson
But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter. -- Lewis Carroll
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch. -- Tim McCarver
All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head. -- Casey Stengel
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way. -- Omar Khayyam
Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand. -- Allan Dare Pearce
The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon. -- Sarah Addison Allen
If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats? -- Prince Philip
After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive. -- David Levithan
Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve. -- Rube Foster
The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change. -- Stan Musial
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core. -- Khushwant Singh
"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love. -- Laura Esquivel
But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. -- Garth Nix
If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth! -- Andrew Jackson

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