Quotes About Santiago De Compostela

#1. summer of 2011, when the first call to walk the Camino Santiago de Compostela had tugged at my soul, I would not have known this was my why. A tug so fierce I had no choice but to follow, the next years would guide me to

Katharine Elliott

#2. My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

Paulo Coelho

#3. I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

Ayn Rand

#4. On February the fourteenth, 1890, I was born. Everybody was furious, especially my Father, who still is. As soon as I became conscious of anything I was furious too...

Nina Hamnett

#5. On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger.

Donatella Versace

#6. Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.

Mies Van Der Rohe

#7. I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

Mark Knopfler

#8. 'F - k you' is not really the best way to articulate how you feel.

Yolanda Foster

#9. We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will Rogers

#10. Trevor, remember a man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be a man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have, it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.

Trevor Noah

#11. There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.

Edwin Mullins

#12. While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

Saint Augustine

#13. They spoke to me of people, and of humanity.
But I've never seen people, or humanity.
I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar,
Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. I have to remind myself that love comes in all sorts of packages.

Leslye Walton

#15. I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.

Andrew W.K.