Brumidi Fresco Quotes & Sayings

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

Being able to laugh got me through. — Toni Morrison

I feel like a tick on a dog. — Cody Lundin

Never leave a rhinestone unturned. — Dolly Parton

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. — Armand Hammer

The Apotheosis of Washington - a 4,664-square-foot fresco that covers the canopy of the Capitol Rotunda - was completed in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi. Known as "The Michelangelo of the Capitol," Brumidi had laid claim to the Capitol Rotunda in the same way Michelangelo had laid claim to the Sistine Chapel, by painting a fresco on the room's most lofty canvas - the ceiling. Like Michelangelo, Brumidi had done some of his finest work inside the Vatican. Brumidi, however, immigrated to America in 1852, abandoning God's largest shrine in favor of a new shrine, the U.S. Capitol, which now glistened with examples of his mastery - from the trompe l'oeil of the Brumidi Corridors to the frieze ceiling of the Vice President's Room. And yet it was the enormous image hovering above the Capitol Rotunda that most historians considered to be Brumidi's masterwork. Robert — Dan Brown

If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it's a poem. — Ewuare X. Osayande

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say. — Finley Peter Dunne

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate. — China Mieville

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again? — Aeschylus