I  QUOTE MY QUOTES - OR - LITTLE KNOWn QUOTES FROM THE MIND OF SHANE WILLIS

PART 1 of My Book of Quotations of my own machinations
Little known quotes from  Shane Willis – Photographer, Artist, Bon-vivant.


Complied here for your perusal is a collection of some of my famous quotes that I have spouted over the years. They may not be well known, but if you know me well, you will know these quotes as well know…. Or something like that.
So, not to sound too conceded or egotistical, here are a few of my more introspective, and inspired quotes. But please, don’t quote me on that.  

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"I considered my school a great place to learn, while they tried to teach me stuff I would never need to know."


“I was born with a pencil in my hand…which must have been painful for my mother.”

"I sometimes have a tendency to repeat myself. That is mainly because I know people don’t really listen to what others say when they speak. So, I sometimes have a tendency to repeat myself."

“When people’s preconceived notions about me are challenged, they usually stop talking to me. If their preconceived notions about me are justified… they definitely stop talking to me.”

Once after a long hiking trip up a steep mountain I muttered… “What doesn’t kill you… makes you wish it would.”

"I don’t think I have ever objectified a woman. As a matter of fact.... I lose all objectivity when one is standing nude in front of me. "

“If you live by the idiom… you will die by the axiom.”

“Politics is like pro-wrestling… fun to watch, and you know its fake…but you still would rather watch than be involved.”

“Building a relationship is like building a house. You miss a few bricks here, and a few bricks there… eventual the house will fall.”

“I am happy where I live. If I move, then I will have to drive back here just for a vacation, and with the price of gas, why would I want to do that?”

“If you don’t understand my art, that’s ok. At least you gave it a shot. If you hate my art, that’s’ ok too… I know it’s hard to fix ignorance.”

“My dog has been known to piss on my shoe. I sometimes return him the courtesy. That does not mean I am a dog. It means I know the definition of Justice.”  

“Right now I consider this my MID-LIFE. I don’t know how long I will live, but I know I am only half way done with the things I want to do.”

“I have read the works of Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe... Both have a wonderful sense of humor, and while their styles differ, I see very little difference in their subject matter.”

“I like to travel. It’s the getting there that is half the battle.”

“Traveling is like sex. A long way to go, a little bit of fun, and all that you have after it’s all over are the photos.”

“I have spent five days at Parris Island South Carolina. I came home with a new found respect for the Marine Corp, and a new found admiration for the undying spirit that dwells with in the common Sand Flea.”

“As I travel, I find that much of the scenery of America is the same anywhere you go. It all looks like Havelock until you get to New Bern.  Then there is Raleigh.”

“I try to adapt my conversation to the person I am talking with… then I slowly bring them up to my level.”

“I don’t need to go on the internet and find pornography. I found it works much better when I make my own.”

“I am not going to compromise anymore. The next woman I date is going to have to be perfect and except me with all my flaws intact.”

“I don’t mumble when I talk. It’s called premature articulation”

“The reason I mumble when I talk is that it gives me time to think twice about what I am going to say again.”

“I have no desire to photograph you nude. I intend to keep my clothes on the whole time.”

“I don’t photograph women nude. The last thing they want to see is me with no clothes on.”

“My whole life has revolved around one thing. I just don’t know what that is yet.”

“I think someday there is going to be another revolution. That’s when things are going to turn over.”

“My mind is like a trap. It snaps down hard, and leaves the idea twitching and gasping for breath, with a little trickle of blood coming from its nose.”

“In the radio business you have to know two things. Think like a listener, and listen like a thinker.”

“I once hosted a radio show for several years. Then I realized I need to do something with my life. Like get one.”

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Part  2


“I am never wrong about anything. I just express my version of how things are.”

“What makes a diamond valuable is what value one says it is worth to someone else. What makes art valuable is what value one says it is worth to them selves.”

“I may be wrong sometimes, but I’ll be damned if I can remember any specific event.”

“Yes, I am humbled when people praise my work as genius. I am more amazed that they find me entertaining.  I could really care less about the genius part… entertainers get paid better.”   

“I don’t hold grudges. I find vengeance to be a waist of time. I have better things to do, than think about how much of a shit some people can be. I am sure they know exactly who and what they are, so there is no need for me to point out the obvious”  

“The elusiveness of the common ink pen in my office is as complex and mysterious as the origins of black holes. As a matter of fact, understanding black holes may explain why I can never find an ink pen.”

“When someone asked me if I am happy, most of the time my immediate response is yes. So why do I always find it necessary to try and justify it with an explanation?”  

“As I grow older I find myself still feeling very young. I guess I am very particularly close to a felling like the age of a toddler, when I feel I need a nap in the afternoon.”

“To make a dream become reality is God working through Man.”

“ To imagine a thing, a bridge, a building, a painting, a sculpture, and then create that thing into existence… is beyond any theory and far beyond anything Darwin could have ever written.”

“Fortune cookies are written by political science majors, because don’t really have fortunes in them, they are more like platitudes that have very little meaning to your life or the real world.”

“I have never been a slave to fashion. Its more like a hostage situation when I try to dress up.”

“In the city I live in, driving at lunch time is very dangerous. In one hand I hold my safety and even my very life. In the other I hold a cheeseburger.”

"I am hoping someday when I am gone from this hunk of rock dangling in space, that my quotes will appear in some book or some movie or something. Then I will look down across the gulf of space from my precarious heavenly perch and laugh with a giddy delight."