So now we have a Dirty Dozen... Because this is the twelfth annual compilation of PDML Quotations. Obviously, Doug Brewer, listmeister of the PDML, is the Lee Marvin character: The tough, uncompromising leader of our rag-tag gang. The trouble is we now have to work out the rest of the "cast of characters". If you read up on the original movie on IMDB or Wikipedia you'll find that most of the other Dramatis personæ are people you wouldn't want to be compared to. But, come to think of it, that might be appropriate for us, so we'll just leave the rest of the casting decisions to your imagination.

As usual I've tried to collect my favorite quotations from members of the PDML during the year. And as usual I'm sure I've missed a lot of good ones. Well, real life does get in the way of these things some time. I still hope you'll enjoy what we have here. And as always we're going to include the Quotations List in the PDML Photo Annual. Enjoy!

Frost and Lik sound like a frozen dog treat.

— P.J. Alling

You can't blame Lightroom for not being able to find the files any more than you can blame a librarian if some misguided reader moves all the Jeffery Archer novels into the Great Literature section.

— Bob Walkden

If you want to get LOTS of pics on a card, emulate Dag Thrane and shoot minimalist.

— Rick Womer

In short, it may be clever idea, but it wasn't a good idea.

— Larry Colen

Kjell Bjoern Vinje, of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, said it was the first time he could remember cheese catching fire on Norwegian roads.

— BBC News

You're usually on safe ground if you assume my comments are unconstructive.

— Matthew Hunt

If Jeff Koons were to point at it, it would be magically transformed into good art.

— Bob Walkden

Once you've determined that the creator of a work of art or craft is skilled, competent, and practiced enough to actually achieve what they're after, then you really can't argue with their choices. It's their work. They get to decide.

— Mike Johnston (The Online Photographer)

Of course, you have to look after your banana while cycling.

— Bob Walkden

My wife can only kill me once.

— Bill Robb

If my shots only serve as a negative example for others then I'm happy to provide the public service.

— Bruce Walker

Nice photography. Awful pants.

— Dan Matyola

Crop is not a four letter word. Shit is.

— Paul Stenquist

Just shoot everything wide open. Embrace the softness.

— Zos Xavius

If you can't decide between two lenses it means you need both of them.

— David Mann

The kind of folks that write meaningless twaddle are not the kind that worry about writing quality.

— Bruce Walker

Is 'gift toss' a euphemism for something else?

— Chris Mitchell

It's hard to even maintain a pun thread with 100 characters or less.

— Rick Womer

Anything that prevents any part of the Daily Mail being published can only be seen as a benefit to mankind.

— Mike Wilson

Apparently it only matters when someone else is doing the pillaging. When we do it, it's fair ball.

— Bill Robb

Instagram was never really hip. It was hiplike. Sort of like lifelike is to life.

— P.J. Alling

I'd probably put a naked girl in there somewhere to add a point of interest.

— Bill Robb

I'd like my PUG entry to be something that hasn't already been seen and dissed by the group. >G<

— Dan Matyola

One should distinguish between the thing itself and the price that people charge for them.

— Bob Walkden

I have just been violently reminded that covering one's eyes does nothing to prevent unwanted mental images.

— Bruce Walker

I love the cults. The mindsets are incredible. I tweak them from time to time just to watch them jump.

— Bill Robb

That's quite a difference. For me, at $12,000 it's unaffordable. But at $8,500 I can't afford it.

— Bruce Walker

In science or outside of it we are not uncertain. Our knowledge is merely confined within a certain tolerance.... (science is) the most successful enterprise in the ascent of man because it has understood that the exchange of information between man and nature, man and man, can only take place with a certain tolerance.

— Jakob Bronowski

He's got some professional equipment and a charismatic beard.

— Attila Boros

It's important to keep the cosmic paranoia/smugness ying-yang tiddly-i-po thing in balance.

— Bob Walkden

The solution to happiness, then, is cheap lenses, a 12-inch VGA monitor and never print larger than 4x6.

— "Paul" (pentax1941)

Comments and eviceration welcome in equal measure.

— Darren Addy

Sometimes my mother would have to run through a whole list of apparently random names until she remembered mine. At least, I think she was my mother.

— Bob Walkden

In a prior life, I must have been a kitten killer.

— Bill Robb

I may have had a couple of cocktails today, but I have no idea what you're trying to say here, and I doubt that total sobriety would help.

— Paul Stenquist

I appear to be at that age between irresistible and cute, where I just come off as being creepy.

— Bill Robb

I have given up trying to please photographers and it has let me make so many more images that I can say that I'm now truly happy with.

— Rob Studdert

Natural ability is the best teacher ;-)

— Cotty

Saying that you shouldn't buy a Leica MM because you lose flexibility in the B&W conversion is like saying that you shouldn't buy a Suzuki Hayabusa because you can only carry one passenger.

— Larry Colen

And if you truly want to act 'like' shooting film, well... you know... shoot film.

— Dario Bonazza

My perfect camera hasn't been made yet.

— Marnie

Why waste pixels when we all know the best images have already been taken by the pros?

— Ken Waller

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