Left Handed Quotes

“He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

“Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

“I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

“Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked.

“No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.”
― Courtney Milan - The Suffragette Scandal

“She knew for a fact that being left-handed automatically made you special.
Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, and Albert Schweitzer were all left-handed. Of course, no believable scientific theory could rest on such a small group of people. When Lindsay probed further, however, more proof emerged. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, M.C. Escher, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carrol, H.G. Wells, Eudora Welty, and Jessamyn West- all lefties. The lack of women in her research had initially bothered her until she mentioned it to Allegra. "Chalk that up to male chauvinism," she said. "Lots of left-handed women were geniuses. Janis Joplin was. All it means is that the macho-man researchers didn't bother asking.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, The Owl & Moon Cafe

“Left-Handers are not different because they are unique; They are unique because they are different.”
― Peter-Cole C. Onele

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but any organization that claims you for a member doesn’t get to call itself sinister, whether you’re left-handed or not. I would be insulted to be offered membership in such a namby-pamby organization. It would be like the Archbishop of Canterbury calling a select club of his compatriots ‘Bad, Bad Bishops’.”

Marshall sniggered.

“Watch out for the clergy,” Edward said. “They’re absolutely wild. Sometimes they have an extra biscuit at tea.”
― Courtney Milan - The Suffragette Scandal

“Cuando era pequeño, la esclava madalena, madre de la esclava miriam, se dio cuenta de que yo hacía todo con la mano izquierda. Se lo dijo a mi madre, mi madre se lo dijo a mi padre, y mi padre ordenó a la esclava madalena que me atase la mano izquierda a la espalda. Estuve dos meses con la mano atada, haciéndolo todo con la derecha. Cuando me desataron la mano, en una ceremonia que presenció toda la familia, hasta los primos del extranjero, no volví nunca más a hacer nada con la izquierda. Pasé a ser un niño normal.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Uma Casa na Escuridão

“With my stomach growling, I took my place at the head of the dining table and switched the fork and knife around. Two and a half years, and the girls still forgot to place the cutlery for a left-handed person.”
― Arizona Tape, Valkyrie's Chaos

“Odds are you’re right-handed, but really you’re not. You’re left-handed. Every amino acid in every protein in your body has a left-handed twist to it. In fact, virtually every protein in every life form that has ever existed is exclusively left-handed. If astrobiologists ever find a microbe on a meteor or moon of Jupiter, almost the first thing they’ll test is the handedness of its proteins. If the proteins are left-handed, the microbe is possibly earthly contamination. If they’re right-handed, it’s certainly alien life.”
― Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

“. . . Leonardo's hatching was distinctive because his lines started on the lower right and moved upward to the left, like this: \\. Today this style has an added advantage: the left-handed hatching in a drawing is evidence that it was made by Leonardo.”
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci

“This was met with a long pause. “Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked.
“No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.”
― Courtney Milan - The Suffragette Scandal

“I can't go around the kit.... I can't go snare drum, top tom, middle tom, floor tom[.] I can go the other way. So all these things made up these so-called 'funny fills,' but it was the only way I could play. [QUOTED FROM Ringo: With a Little Help (2015) by Michael Seth Starr]”
― Ringo Starr