Left Handers Quotes

• To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

  Herman Melville

  Literature, Lefties, Compliment

  Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.520, Library of America

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• 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

  Fall, Writing, Light

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• Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

  John Donne

  Faith, Hands, Soul

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

  John Huston

  Left Hand, Crime, Form

  John Huston (1980). “An open book”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

  Louis Calhern

  Left Hand, Crime, Form

  "Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.

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• I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

  William Goldman

  Left Hand, Lefties, Princess Bride

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• Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Brain, Left Hand, Lefties

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2191, e-artnow

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• All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Blow, Left Hand, Lefties

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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• I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Powerful, Lefties

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• The light is the left hand of darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Hands, Darkness

  "The Left Hand of Darkness". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969.

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• You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

  Bill Lee

  Baseball, Two, People

  Bill Lee (2003). “The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Sleep, Yankees

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• Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

  Ron Atkinson

  Two, Tonight, England

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up. He was dominating the Twins, ... People think I'm a bad manager or don't know the game or fall asleep during the game and wake up and change pitchers. I'm watching the same game they are.

  Ozzie Guillen

  Fall, Thinking, Games

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• Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

  Casey Stengel

  Strong, Yankees, Hands

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• I refuse to believe that God is a weak left-hander.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Believe, Weak, Refuse

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• The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

  "Jerry Coleman, 89, Yankee Infielder, Fighter Pilot and Voice of the Padres" by George Vecsey, www.nytimes.com. January 6, 2014.

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