Kurt Tucholsky Quotes

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.

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

I always wanted to be ambidextrous, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to be able to use both hands, and I still use my left hand a lot.

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

I punch left-handed.

I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left.

I do a lot of things with both hands. I've been told I have a better shooting form with my right, but I'm more comfortable with the left.

I'm left-handed.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances