Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Andy Dufresne
9Some 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 that they're gone.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
5A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
4I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
3You know 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
3You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth.
Captain Hadley
3Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
3I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
2Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple.
Captain Hadley
1Andy Dufresne: "You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?"
Red: "No."
Andy Dufresne: "They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory."
Red: "No."
Andy Dufresne: "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
1I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both.
Warden Samuel Norton
1Son, six wardens have been through here in my tenure, and I've learned one immutable, universal truth: Not one of them born whose a-shole wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you ask them for funds.
Brooks
