Left Hand Quotes - Page 4

• About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Hands, Use

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Machines, Remus Lupin

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.48, Pottermore

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• He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of sweet-smelling, cough-induced smoke. 'Finally broke down and admitted you're in love with me, have you?'He inquired of Will. 'I do enjoy these suprise midnight declarations.' He leaned against the doorway and waved a languid ringed hand. "Go along, have at it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Clouds, Hands

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• And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.

  Jennifer Estep

  Hands, Hammers, Faces

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.487, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.

  Douglas Adams

  Pain, Mean, Hands

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Blow, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.826, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

  Bobby Heenan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

  Alicia Keys

  Dark, Blue, Hands

  "Oprah Talks to Alicia Keys". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2004.

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• The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.

  Colm Toibin

  Notebook, Writing, Hands

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• This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Heart, Hands, Touching

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.

  Hilary McKay

  Girl, Falling In Love, Growing Up

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• I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Hands, Numbers

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• Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.

  Markus Zusak

  Hands, Crowds, Arms

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.488, RH Childrens Books

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• Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

  Denis Johnson

  Kindness, Believe, Heart

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood." "It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Smell, Blood, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.956, Simon and Schuster

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• *I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Walking Away, Hands

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• ...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

  Gunter Grass

  Hands, Fists, Restless

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• If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

  Nikolas Schreck

  Hands, Path, Kind

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• First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of mankind. Since his new benevolence has a practical foundation, he cannot very well adhere to the old Biblical recommendation, that the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Hands, Careers

  "Mein Kampf".

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• That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

  John Scales

  Football, Hands, Knees

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• Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.

  Nikolas Schreck

  Hands, Path, Left

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• I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.

  Paul Reubens

  Hands, Police, Said

  "Paul Reubens clears the air on his '91 arrest". Playboy Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
  Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt
  Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump...
  Lala la la lala la laaaa

  B-Real

  Rap, Hands, Hip Hop

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• Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Light, Hands, White

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Writing, Hands

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