Shangri Quotes
The best sayings about Shangri that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.
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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.
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Top Authors
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R. Lee Ermey Actor -
Pierre Clastres Anthropologist -
Philip Selznick Author -
Price Pritchett Author -
Phil Douglas Baseball player -
Phil Harding Chairman of an NGO, former Senior Policy Adviser on sustainable development, climate change and resource efficiency -
Phil Silvers Entertainer -
Peter Sarsgaard Film actor -
Peyton Manning Football player -
Peter Schmeichel Footballer
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Peter Lesley Geologist -
Pierre Dukan Medical doctor -
Peter V. Brett Novelist -
Pierre de Marivaux Novelist -
R. B. Braithwaite Philosopher
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Prince Gomolvilas Playwright -
Pindar Poet -
Pol Pot Political leader -
Petro Poroshenko President of Ukraine -
Pierre L. van den Berghe Professor -
Pinckney Benedict Short story writer -
Pia Toscano Singer -
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Soccer player -
Philip Smith Trumpet Player -
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Peter Ho Davies Writer -
Peter Sotos Writer -
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Writer
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