the shawshank redemption

fear can hold you prisoner. hope can set you free.

"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 Norton
 

"I must admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. That was my first impression of the man."

    --  Red
 

"The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it."

    --  Red
 

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

    --  Red
 

"Makin' yourself some friends, Andy."
"I wouldn't say 'friends.' I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial planning."

    --  Red and Andy Dufresne
 

"Red, I do believe you're talking out of your ass."

    --  Floyd
 

"She was beautiful. God I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger, but I pushed her away. And that's why she died, because of me."

    --  Andy Dufresne
 

"It's my life. Don't you understand? It's my life!"

    --  Andy Dufresne
 

"That's the beauty of music. They can't take that away from you."

    --  Andy Dufresne
 

"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to 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 makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."

    --  Red
 

"These walls are kind of funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. They send you here for life, that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyways."

    --  Red
 

"If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they're gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination."
"Well, I'll be damned. Did I say you were good? Shit, you're a Rembrandt!"
"Yeah. 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 and Red
 

"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

    --  Andy Dufresne
 

"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it 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."

    --  Red