The best Quotes from The Shawshank Redemption

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Andy Dufresne

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 that they're gone.

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding

Freedom Birds

A 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

Crime

I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding

You 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

Prisons

You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth.

Captain Hadley

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding

Hope

I 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

Freedom

Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple.

Captain Hadley

Andy 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."

Andy Dufresne

I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both.

Warden Samuel Norton

Patience & Endurance

Son, 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

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I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

Stephen King in It

Youth

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Stephen King - about Harry Potter

Joanne K. Rowling Quotes about Harry Potter

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

Books

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Stephen King

Seduction

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King in The Dark Tower

Lies Truth Enemies & Opponents

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

Stephen King in Doctor Sleep

Love

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

Books

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Books Reading

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Tim Robbins

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

Tim Robbins

Censorship

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

Tim Robbins

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

Tim Robbins

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

Tim Robbins

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.

Spencer Hastings in Pretty Little Liars - Season 1 Episode 1

Hope Deep Quotes

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Ambition Character Birds

I’ve known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests, honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other. But if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again. But you took something that wasn’t yours. And you sold it for a profit. You’re now a criminal. Good one, bad one? That’s up to you.

Mike Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul - Season 1 Episode 9

Crime Morality

You know what they do to handsome guy like me in prison. It rhymes with grape.

Eric Molson in 21 Jump Street

Prisons

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Baker Mayfield

Patience & Endurance

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Stephen King in Pet Sematary

Men

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

Stephen King in The Shining

Imagination

Time is a face on the water

Stephen King in The Dark Tower - Glas

Time

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Love

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Stephen King in It

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Stephen King in The Stand

Words Writing

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

Stephen King in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Stephen King in The Dead Zone

Humanity

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

Beast / Hank McCoy in X-Men - Erste Entscheidung

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