Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

Gilbert White
Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

James Spader
James Spader

I think the most significant change in my life is the decision to do a series. An hourlong dramatic television series on a broadcast network swallows you and chews you up and refuses to spit you out. You're making a decision that's going to be a profound and significant impact on the practical aspects of your life.

Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Michelle Magorian
Michelle Magorian

When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome's books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Coral Island.'

Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

Tom Hollander
Tom Hollander

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.