Pecos Bill Quotes in Tall Tale (1995)

Pecos Bill: Don't lose the dream!

[on seeing a beautiful swarm of butterflies]

Pecos Bill: Kind of makes it all worthwhile, don't you think?

Pecos Bill: Not as hot as the summer of '88 when the chickens laid fried eggs and the babies cried sawdust.

Paul Bunyan: Does this story have a point or does it go on and on and on like this stinkin' desert?

Pecos Bill: We came to say goodbye, Daniel.

Daniel Hackett: I knew you would.

Daniel Hackett: Pecos, don't go!

Pecos Bill: Don't worry about it! You can handle things from here!

Daniel Hackett: Who are you?

Pecos Bill: I'm 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...

Daniel Hackett: You got a name, don't you?

Pecos Bill: I'm getting' to that. I'm the rip-snortinest cowboy that ever rode north, south, east or west of the Rio Grande. I'm Pecos Bill.

Pecos Bill: I ought to plug you two right now, but I make it a rule never to kill a man on Sunday.

Zeb: Today's Wednesday.

Pecos Bill: I ain't apologizin' to no ox!