Best 9 quotes in «left handed quotes» category

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

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.

[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.

I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

Left-Handers are not different because they are unique; They are unique because they are different.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.