#bat

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#answer #asked #bat #before #had

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#battle #could #david #die #greatest

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#calling #depends #i #local #rang

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#approbation #between #chief #deeds #difference

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' ↗

— Zac Efron

#batman #films #i #i love #like

Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that. ↗

— Zac Efron

#batman #billionaire #character #cool #favorite

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#anything #battle #chance #contest #last

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battlefield #job #leading #lieutenant #most

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s. ↗

— John Engler

#been #country #debate #focused #funding

My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#hero #now #stark #style #tony