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

#6. My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

Bernie Worrell

#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

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