Prospector Quotes in Vanishing Point (1971)

Kowalski: What do you do with those things?

Prospector: Trade 'em. Trade 'em for coffee, sugar, chewing tobacco, salt, flour, and beans, lots of beans, son.

Prospector: It's Locasto and his gang! They jump every good claim! The theivin' lice!

Lars Petersen: I think I bane goin' to yump on somebody!

Prospector: [Describing finding the dead body] No, just one look at that face, and I got out of there as fast as I could!

Con Man: [laughs] Now, what makes people so jittery about the dead? Why, some of my best friends are corpses... the only ones I can trust! Oh, sure, they stink a little but no more than a few alive ones that I know.

Prospector: There was a trial.

Con Man: What happened?

Prospector: A man was murdered.

Con Man: Just one? A slow day!

Prospector: Shut up, you! This is a preacher standing here.

Con Man: Preacher? It can't be! He woke me up. They usually put me to sleep.

Prospector: [to the Preacher] Don't pay him no mind.

Preacher: Who is he?

Prospector: He's a con man... a swindler... an old scalawag.

Con Man: How else can a man live to be old nowadays?