Top 17 Portnoy's Quotes
			
		    
                #1. They had the magic pill, the solution to the inertia and frustration that has plagued the great literary protagonists I'd related to all my life - be it Leopold Bloom, Alex Portnoy, or Piglet from Winnie the Pooh. As
                Neil Strauss
							 
            
                    
		    
                #2. One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming.
                Mike Portnoy
							 
            
            
		    
                #3. The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
                Irving Howe
							 
            
            
		    
                #4. I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.
                Mike Portnoy
							 
            
                    
		    
                #5. You need some place to work in. That's the door half open.
                Louise Bogan
							 
            
            
		    
            
            
		    
                #7. I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.
                Khaled Hosseini
							 
            
            
		    
                #8. Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
                J.G. Ballard
							 
            
                    
		    
                #9. With each passing minute, I expected her to walk away, and every minute she stayed in my arms felt like a miracle.
                Jamie McGuire
							 
            
            
		    
                #10. new faster, leaner non-profits are springing up everywhere. They engage, they show momentum
                Dan Portnoy
							 
            
            
		    
                #11. I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.
                Danny Dyer
							 
            
            
		    
                #12. The model and size of the server was determined with help from an application vendor who provided a recommended configuration based on the company's specific need. That need was not the company's
                Matthew Portnoy
							 
            
            
		    
                #13. Where are you getting your material - Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking
                Laura Lippman
							 
            
            
		    
                #14. The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism.
                Noam Chomsky
							 
            
                    
		    
                #15. One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
                Kristin Bauer Van Straten
							 
            
            
		    
                #16. Obama was particularly offended, as he put it, that "the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans without judicial approval." Justifying
                Jeremy Scahill
							 
            
            
		    
                #17. 'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.
                Richard D. Zanuck