Red: Prison life consists of routine, and then more routine.
Andy: If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they're gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination.
Red: Well, I'll be damned. Did I say you were good? Shit, you're a Rembrandt!
Andy: 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.
Brooks: The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.
Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Red: In 1966 Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank Prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man 600 years to tunnel through the wall with it. Ol' Andy did it in less than twenty.
Warden Norton: I believe in 2 things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank
Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Red: Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
Red: Geology is the study of pressure and time. Thats all it takes really, pressure and time. That, and a big god-damn poster.
Red: They send you here for life... and that's exactly what they take.
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