quotes

//“There must be a con like me in every prison in America”- Red //

//“I must admit, I didn’t think much of Andy the first time I laid eyes on him. Looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over.”- Red //

//“I believe in two things: discipline and the bible.” – Norton //

//“Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.” – Red //

//First thing Andy says in prison “What was his name?” about the “fat” man who is beaten up. //

//“I think it would be fair to say, I liked Andy from the start.” – Red

// //“Prison life consists of routines, and the more routines.” – Red //

//“We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. We were the lords of creation.” – Red //

//“Me, I think he did it to feel normal again. If only for a short while.” – Red //

//“I’m a convicted murderer who provides sound financial planning. It’s a wonderful pet to have.” – Andy //

//“Andy was a regular cottage industry.” – Red //

//“That’s the only way they’d let me stay.” – Brookes //

//Red in reference to Brookes: // //“Brookes aint no thug. He’s just institutionalized.” // //“In here he’s an important man, an educated man. Outside he’s nothing.” // //“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.” // //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Send you here for life and that’s exactly what they take. The part tha //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">t counts anyway.” //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Brookes: // //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the foodway so they’ll send me home.” // //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“I don’t like it here. I’m tired of being afraid.” //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in that grey place dared to dream.” – Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“It was as if a beautiful bird flapped into our drab cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments every last man at Shawshank felt free.” – Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“You need it so that you don’t forget that there are places in the world that aint made out of stone. Something inside you that they can’t get to, they can’t touch. It’s yours.”- Andy //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Hope. Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It’s a got no use on the inside.”- Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Behind every shady deal; behind every dollar earned. There was Andy.” – Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“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 //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Prison time is slow time, so you do what you can to keep going. Some fellas collect stamps. Andy built a library.” – Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“In prison a man will do most anything to keep himself occupied.” – Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“You know what the Mexican’s say about the Pacific… it has no memory.” – Andy //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“I don’t think I could make it on the outside, Andy. I’ve been in here most of my life. I’m an institutional man now.” – Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“I don’t think you should be doing this to yourself Andy. It’s just shitty pipe dreams.” – Red //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“I guess it comes down to a simple choice really: get busy living or get busy dying.”- Andy //

//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Red on Andy’s escape: // //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“In 1966 Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank Prison.” // //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“I guess after Tommy was killed Andy decided he’d been here just about long enough.” // //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards of shit-smelling foulness I can’t even imagine.” // //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“AndyDufresne: who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.” // “I have to remind myself that some birds just 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.”