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The Shawshank Redemption Quotes

“Andy was as good as his word.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Word, True, Good
“I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.”
— Brooks Hatlen, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: World, Hurry, Time
“Man likes to play chess. Let's get him some rocks. ”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Chess, Rocks, Game
“Rumor has it you're a real cold fish.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: cold, fish, Rumor
“Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, really. Pressure and time. That and a big goddamn poster.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: geology, pressure, Time
“Prison is no fairy-tale world.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Prison, fairy tale
“That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you.”
— Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Music, beauty
“These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Walls, Institutionalized, Prison, recidivism
“The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.”
— Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: honest, crook, Prison
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Hope, Good Things
“That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: silver spoon, ass, tall drink of water
“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.”
— Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Italians, Singing, Music, beauty
“Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Shit, river of shit, Redemption
“The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.”
— Brooks Hatlen, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: hectic, hurried
“Lord! It’s a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind!”
— Warden Samuel Norton, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Miracle, Fart, vanished
“Every man has his breaking point.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Breaking Point
“Salvation lies within.”
— Warden Samuel Norton, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Salvation
“I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Excitement, pacific ocean
“Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Hope, dangerous, insane
“Some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now that they’re gone.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Birds, caged, Freedom, Emptiness
“I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him. A walk and a talk that just wasn’t normal around here. He strolled like a man in a park, without a care or worry in the world. Like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place. Yeah. I think it would be fair to say… I liked Andy from the start.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Snobby, carefree
“I believe in two things. Discipline and the Bible. Here you’ll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord. Your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.”
— Warden Samuel Norton, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Discipline, Bible
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Living, Dying
“You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
— Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Mexicans, pacific ocean, Memory
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Life Quotes, Stephen King Quotes, Stephen King
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
— Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Freedom, Caged Birds, Stephen King, Stephen King Quotes
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