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Andy Dufresne3 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994You 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 · 1994Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding3 quotes
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994I'm tellin' you, these walls are funny. First you hate ’em. Then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Brooks Hatlen1 quote
The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. — Brooks Hatlen · 1994Captain (Cool Hand Luke)1 quote
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach. — Captain (Cool Hand Luke) · 1967Luke1 quote
Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand. — Luke · 1967Warden Samuel Norton1 quote
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 Samuel Norton · 1994