Shangri Quotes:

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.1, Harper Collins

topic: Father, Two, Hundred, Miles Away, Jellicoe Road

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Journey, Differences, Breezy, Jellicoe Road, Shangri

The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 years ago. Those kinds of experiences are very much of the countryside of Bhutan, where people are truly happy in the sense of not creating and wanting more.

- Karan Bajaj

topic: Light, Bhutan, Years, Wanting More, Traffic Light

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

- Rob Sheffield

topic: Hair, Tails, Four, Shangri

Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.

- Ellen Hopkins

source: Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.577, Simon and Schuster

topic: Land, Culture, Earth, Shangri

There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!

- Ron Moody

topic: Greatness, Boys, Names, Perfect Things, Mount Everest

For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

- Chungliang Al Huang

topic: Mind, Faults, Bombs, True Peace, Time Bomb

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

- Hedda Hopper

source: Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

topic: Kings, Gold, Hollywood, Solomon, Shangri

writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.

- Jill Tweedie

topic: Writing, Men, Doors, Shangri

Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

- Robert Plant

topic: Thinking, One Day, Lasts, Kashmir, Shangri

There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

- George R. R. Martin

source: "The Faces of Fantasy". Book by Patti Perret, 1996.

topic: Children, Night, Forever, Hollow, Shangri

I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

- Mitchell Zuckoff

source: "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

topic: Military, War, June, Loops, Shangri