[after Daniel describes telephones]
Everybody'll know everybody else's business? Well, in no time at all, there won't be a single place left where a man can find any privacy.
Pecos Bill
Patrick Swayze · 21 quotes
Paul Bunyan
Oliver Platt · 14 quotes
Daniel Hackett
Nick Stahl · 13 quotes
John Henry
Roger Aaron Brown · 13 quotes
J.P. Stiles
Scott Glenn · 11 quotes
Jonas Hackett
Stephen Lang · 7 quotes
Most scenes together: Pecos Bill & Paul Bunyan (5), Daniel Hackett & Pecos Bill (4), Paul Bunyan & John Henry (4)
Tall Tale quotes
Page 2 of 5[Pecos Bill]
He's still out there, where there's still enough room for a man to wander. He's out there, where the land's still young and wild. You don't believe me? I swear to you, by the Code of the West, Pecos Bill's as real as you and me.
[Stiles: And who might you be, friend?]
The name's Jonas Hackett, and you ain't no friend of mine.
Early to bed, early to rise. Makes a boy healthy, wealthy, and alive.
Even money, Pecos! You can do better than that! [Pecos Bill: I don't know, John Henry, that thingamajigger looks like it means business!] We'll see!
Everybody and their dog's probably after us by now.
First that blasted ox, now a gall-darn jackass. Might as well be ridin' turtles. [John Henry: Cold Molasses is a mule!] I wasn't referrin' to her.
Hackett's farm, right smack in the middle of everything. Without that deed, I won't have a bucket to spit in.
I am a ring-tailed roarer. I can draw faster, shoot straighter, ride harder, and drink longer than any man alive. I ride cyclones and I wrestle. I'm the rip-snortinest cowboy that ever rode North, South, East or West of the Rio Grande. I'm Pecos Bill.
I hate the farm! I wish you'd sell it, I hate it! [...] It's nothing, it's just a dried up, miserable piece of ground!
I just want to get home.
I never miss. Least-wise, I haven't yet.
I told Sam, "They're not loggers, they're butchers! Them and their fancy machines, cuttin' down everything in sight, the weak with the strong. A sapling won't get to full growth." Said, "Nothing will ever sprout again." You know what Sam said? He said I was behind the times. Me. Paul Bunyan. The man who invented logging. Who thought up the double-bladed axe, huh? Me. Who dreamed up the log flume? Me again. Don't think it's easy! My head hurt for days, coming up with that one! What about the grindstone? Flapjack contest! Wedge cutting! Three point stance! Me, me, me, me!