Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Quotes

"When you're in a pressure-cooker you learn to live and let live or somebody will carve you a brand-new mouth just above the Adam's apple. You learn to make allowances." (127)

"He dealt himself one drink Christmas night and another on New Year's Eve. Then that one would also come to me with instructions to pass it on." (22)

"What was right with him he'd only give you a little at a time. What was wrong with him he kept bottled up inside." (20)

"'You could plant an item like that rock-hammer in somebody's skull,' I remarked. 'I have no enemies here,' he said quietly. 'No?' I smiled. 'Wait awhile.'" (55)

"Looking at them, I felt the warmth that any man or woman feels when he or she is looking at something pretty, something that has been worked and made." (136)

"In all my years at Shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom I believed when they told me they were innocent. Andy Dufresne was one of them." (9)

"Given a second chance I would not do it again, but I'm not sure that means I am rehabilitated." (2)

"Andy held them at bay for a while with a scoop of Hexlite, threatening to throw it in their eyes if they came any closer." (87)