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Frank Darabont Quotes

Total quotes: 37
“Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, really. Pressure and time. That and a big goddamn poster.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: geology, pressure, Time
“Prison is no fairy-tale world.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Prison, fairy tale
“That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you.”
— Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Music, beauty
“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.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Walls, Institutionalized, Prison, recidivism
“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, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: honest, crook, Prison
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Hope, Good Things
“That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: silver spoon, ass, tall drink of water
“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t wanna 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 it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird 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.”
— Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Italians, Singing, Music, beauty
“Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Shit, river of shit, Redemption
“The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.”
— Brooks Hatlen, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: hectic, hurried
“Lord! It’s a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind!”
— Warden Samuel Norton, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Miracle, Fart, vanished
“Every man has his breaking point.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Breaking Point
“Salvation lies within.”
— Warden Samuel Norton, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Salvation
“I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is 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.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Excitement, pacific ocean
“Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Hope, dangerous, insane
“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, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now that they’re gone.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Birds, caged, Freedom, Emptiness
“I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him. A walk and a talk that just wasn’t normal around here. He strolled like a man in a park, without a care or worry in the world. Like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place. Yeah. I think it would be fair to say… I liked Andy from the start.”
— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Snobby, carefree
“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, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Discipline, Bible
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Living, Dying
“You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
— Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Mexicans, pacific ocean, Memory
“I don't take chances anymore.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 6: East
Tagged: chances, risks, Taking Chances
“Rick Grimes: They're gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out...

Abraham Ford: Find out what?

Rick Grimes: They're screwing with the wrong people.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 4: A
Tagged: Wrong People, Don't Fuck With Me, stupidity
“Father, forgive me. I don't deserve your mercy. I prayed for safe passage from Atlanta and you provided. I prayed for Ed to be punished for laying his hands on me and for looking at his own daughter with whatever sickness was growing in his soul. I prayed you'd put a stop to it, give me a chance to raise her right, help her not make my mistakes. She's so fearful. She's so young in her way. She hasn't had a chance. Praying for Ed's death was a sin. Please, don't let this be my punishment. Let her be safe, alive and safe. Please, lord. Punish me however you want, but show mercy on her.”
— Carol Peletier, The Walking Dead, Season 2: What Lies Ahead
Tagged: prayer, God, Religion, Regrets
“All I wanted after my sister died was to get out of this endless horrific nightmare we live every day. I wasn't hurting anyone else. You took my choice away, Dale. And you expect gratitude? I don't know what to say. I'm not your little girl. I'm not your wife. And I am sure as hell not your problem.”
— Andrea Harrison, The Walking Dead, Season 2: What Lies Ahead
Tagged: Suicide, Death, Mourning, Choices
“You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do but you don't. It's only a matter of time. There's too many of those things. My boy, my wife, I never told them what I really thought. I never even hinted, just, just kept it in, kept us moving, kept it in, kept us moving.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 1: TS-19
Tagged: Keep Moving, surviving, Keep It Inside
“Rick Grimes: I'm grateful.

Edwin Jenner: The day will come when you won't be.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 1: TS-19
Tagged: grateful, Happy To Be Alive, thankful
“This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event.”
— Edwin Jenner, The Walking Dead, Season 1: TS-19
Tagged: extinction, Death Of Humanity, World Ending
“I see a chance to make a new start.”
— Dale Horvath, The Walking Dead, Season 1: TS-19
Tagged: New Start, fresh start, Second Chances, Hope
“Words can be meager things. Sometimes they fall short.”
— Dale Horvath, The Walking Dead, Season 1: Tell It to the Frogs
Tagged: Words, Speaking, Actions Speak Louder
“I deserve it. I deserve it. I've been bad. Help me now. Show me the way. Go on, tell me what to do. Tell me. Tell me. God! That's okay. Never you mind, silly Christ boy. I ain't begged you before. I ain't gonna start begging now. I ain't gonna beg you now! Don't you worry about me begging you ever! I'll never beg you! I ain't gonna beg you! I never begged you before.”
— Merle Dixon, The Walking Dead, Season 1: Tell It to the Frogs
Tagged: God, Christ, Bad Boy, Begging
“I can see you make a habit of missing the point.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 1: Guts
Tagged: Missing The Point, Bad Habits, insults
“Ought to be polite to a man with a gun. Only common sense.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 1: Guts
Tagged: Guns, polite, weapons, Common Sense
“Nice moves there, Clint Eastwood. You the new sheriff come riding in to clean up the town?”
— Glenn Rhee, The Walking Dead, Season 1: Guts
Tagged: clint eastwood, Cowboys, Sheriff
“Bites kill you. The fever burns you out. But then after a while...you come back.”
— Morgan Jones, The Walking Dead, Season 1: Days Gone Bye
Tagged: zombies, Bites, Resurrection, Fever
“Never met a woman who knew how to turn off a light. Born thinking the switch only goes one way: on. Come home, house all lit up, and my job, you see, apparently because my chromosomes happen to be different is that I gotta walk through that house and turn off every single light this chick left on.”
— Shane Walsh, The Walking Dead, Season 1: Days Gone Bye
Tagged: Women, Women and Girls, Electricity
“People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world”
— John Coffey, The Green Mile
“Anything is possible until your heart stops beating.”
— Father Gabriel Stokes, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead Season 7: Say Yes
Tagged: possibilities, Dreams, H4D-3
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