Demijohn Quotes & Sayings

What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures? — Umberto Eco

I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known him, he has desired to have a long talk with me, but he never gets started; and yet each time he meets me with renewed zest for the outpouring. It is like getting congealed liquid from a demijohn; you know the jug is large and full, but getting the contents out is the problem. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I appreciate the mistakes I made in the past cause it is shaping my future. — Tonto Dikeh

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form. — Geoffrey Wood

It is not unusual now to hear religion and humanism spoken of as if they were opposed, even antagonistic. But humanism clearly rested on the idea that people have souls, and that they have certain obligations to them, and certain pleasures in them, which arise from their refinement or their expression in art or in admirable or striking conduct, or which arise from finding other souls expressed in music or philosophy or philanthropy or revolution. — Marilynne Robinson

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols) ... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies. — Colin Blakemore