Top 100 My Right Quotes
#1. I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
Ben Okri
#2. I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.'
Allan Ray
#3. Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.
Mordecai Richler
#4. I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.
Katherine Hannigan
#5. I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.
Neil Young
#6. Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
Hannibal Buress
#7. 8He is ever present with me; at all times He goes before me. I will not live in fear or abandon my calling because He stands at my right hand. 9This is a good life - my heart is glad, my soul is full of joy, and my body is at rest. Who could want for more?
Anonymous
#8. People's eyes are blobs of jelly. That's what the medic told me one I'd lost my right eye. But her eyes? Her eyes were limitless, like the night sky. Her gaze dissolved into space, as though all human experience could be found in her glassy eyes. I
Fran Seen
#9. Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions of my right hand drawings. Sometimes I like drawing with my eyes closed.
Jason Polan
#10. My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Bill Toomey
#11. They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus ... something like that.
Louis Tomlinson
#13. I don't type [when I write] because ... I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
Anne Tyler
#14. There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.
Jasper Carrott
#15. Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.
John Jay Hooker
#16. I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
Zach Condon
#17. Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.
Christopher Buckley
#18. I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.
Malala Yousafzai
#19. I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
Nadine Velazquez
#20. I've got four piercings in my left, so we've dubbed my right one the 'period drama ear.' I have to be filmed from that side when I do emotional close-ups in 'Downton.'
Jessica Brown Findlay
#21. Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#22. For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.
Hayley Williams
#23. Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins ...
T. Rafael Cimino
#24. I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
Dan Stevens
#25. I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.
Jonah Lomu
#26. I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.
Suzanne Collins
#27. I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped and caught myself with my right arm. I felt something pull right then. Then, in '38, when I came back, my arm was messed up.
Leon Day
#28. It's a birthmark called nevus of Ota. It covers the whole white of my eye and darkens it. The square of the eye, the white part, is completely dark on my right eye, not just the iris.
Daniela Ruah
#30. Eli's on my left and Pigpen on my right as we take off. Both have their guns still drawn and their expressions are deadly.
Katie McGarry
#31. My entire body is battling itself. My left brain is telling me this is somehow wrong, my right brain is wanting to hear her sing again, my stomach is nowhere to be found, and my heart is punching itself in the face with one arm and hugging itself with the
Colleen Hoover
#32. My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!
James Keller
#33. I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.
Bobby Robson
#34. I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.
Michael Owen
#35. I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.
Mihail Sebastian
#36. I pointed to my right breast. "This is Danger." Then my left. "And this is Will Robinson.
Darynda Jones
#37. Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.
Stephen Colbert
#38. I began seeing things out of my right eye. This was a relief because Mom and Dad did not know if I would ever see anything again.
Amy Rankin
#39. I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become,
during his earlier years of a miller's life.
Jane Addams
#40. I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.
Heston Blumenthal
#41. When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
John Scalzi
#42. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.
Amy Tan
#43. I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
Andrea Bocelli
#44. My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).
Barbara Hepworth
#45. I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
Stokely Carmichael
#46. I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
Lesley Nicol
#47. I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.
Felicity Jones
#48. The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual ... that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#49. I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!
Leslie West
#50. If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
Al Unser
#51. Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.
Andrew Jackson
#52. A canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
Irving Stone
#53. But you have to admit I wasn't in my right mind. You had just ridden the intelligence right out of me.
Gena Showalter
#54. I put my arm around her and felt our hearts beating through our sweaters and I brought my right hand up and felt her neck smooth and the hair thick against it under my fingers that were shaking.
Ernest Hemingway,
#55. My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
Leslie Feinberg
#56. As I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
Helen Simonson
#57. Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Ani DiFranco
#58. Even the concept of the infidel is misleading, because the infidel is normally someone with a different faith, someone who refuses to recognize the truth of the words of the Koran, as revealed by God. He has every right to do so, as long as he does not question my right to believe in my truth.
Tariq Ramadan
#59. I reserve my right to choices, too, and I choose to behave badly.
Kirsty Eagar
#60. In my left hand the Book, in my right hand the Sword, and at my feet the World.
Antoine Rouaud
#61. The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant
#62. I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.
Logan Mankins
#63. Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead ... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
Thomas Huxley
#64. Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy.
Stephanie Perkins
#65. I'm a child of the early nineties. Eddie Vedder and my right hand gave me my first orgasm.
Tiffany Reisz
#66. I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.
Uday Hussein
#67. I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
Sue Grafton
#68. Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. -
Dani Shapiro
#69. I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
Kevin Spacey
#70. A loud booming noise interrupted us, and we saw a flash of light off to my right. People near the other garages screamed.
"There, you see?" asked Abe, quite pleased with himself. "A new gate. Perfect timing.
Richelle Mead
#71. I thought of going to Law, feeling sure that, as the Husband in the matter, any court in the land would uphold my right to decide the use and purpose of that land.
Anonymous
#72. I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.
Johan Cruijff
#73. I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.
Gary Busey
#74. No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
Benazir Bhutto
#75. I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.
Joshilyn Jackson
#76. In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments.
The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#78. The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.
Lysander Spooner
#79. I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Spike Milligan
#80. Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
Bob Dylan
#81. I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
Douglas Bader
#82. In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
Mary Lou Retton
#83. My headache was worse than ever. I groaned, raising my right hand to my temple, and the last of the comfortable darkness dissolved, leaving me inarguably awake. Damn. "Toby?
Seanan McGuire
#84. Wake up, Sleeping Beauty," Jace said softly from my right.
"Call me that again, and I'll tell the whole Pride you sleep in Scooby-Doo underwear."
"I don't sleep in Scooby-Doo underwear. Hell, I don't sleep in any underwear.
Rachel Vincent
#85. The streets were not my only problem. If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later. I suffered at the hands of both,
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#86. I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
Johnny Cash
#87. I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#88. My right didn't come from a board of ethics. It came from God.
C.D. Reiss
#89. All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again ... and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.
Wilt Chamberlain
#90. I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
Sloane Crosley
#91. Where's your trident? I've only seen mermen with a trident that looks like a pitchfork," asked Alden.
"New technology. I upgraded last year to a disc implanted under the skin in my right hand. I don't miss having to carry that clumsy thing. Kept dropping it.
L.R.W. Lee
#92. Take a sip from the cup of death ...
And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.
Ol' Dirty Bastard
#93. trying to convince myself
i am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when i was born
to use my right
-the idea shrinking is hereditary
Rupi Kaur
#94. My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#95. I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a light fixture while practicing Elvis Presley moves in college.
Peter Lerangis
#96. After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
Iman
#97. I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Caitlyn Jenner
#98. I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
Ben Crenshaw
#99. Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.
Dazzy Vance
#100. Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
Gabrielle Giffords
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