Here are some quotes from my favorite movie: The Shawshank Redemption
"Hope is a good thing,
maybe
the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
"He crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side."
"Here's where it makes the
most sense. You need it so you
don't forget. Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made
out of stone. That there's a...there's a...there's something inside that's
yours, that they can't touch"
"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 better
left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful,
it can't be expressed in words, and it 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 as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our
drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest
of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
"Get busy living, or get busy dying"
"I have to remind myself
that 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. Still,
the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.
I guess I just miss my friend."
"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.
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."
"We sat and drank with the
sun on our shoulders and felt
like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our
own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that
break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching
us drink his beer."
