Vernon Hightower Quotes in Nadine (1987)

Vernon Hightower: [on phone] You know I'm good for it. It's just that all my money is tied up in, uh, assets and stuff.

Vernon Hightower: Damn it, woman, I'm trying to get the Blue Bonnet refinanced.

Nadine Hightower: If you ask me, the Blue Bonnet's...

Vernon Hightower: I didn't ask. There is no way they're gonna let me have that money unless you agree to the divorce and promise to make no claim on the Bonnet.

Nadine Hightower: Do you see the keys to a new Buick convertible with white sidewall tires, a radio and air conditioner? When you see the keys in my hand, you'll see my name on those papers. Now you got that, slick?

Vernon Hightower: [points to his beat-up old pickup truck] You see that Chevy? You see that busted headlight? You see that baling wire? You think I'd be driving in that if I could afford a new Buick?

Nadine Hightower: [she notices a blonde sitting in the truck] And who might that be?

Vernon Hightower: That happens to be Renee Lomax. She's the Uvalde High School Pecan Queen of 1947.

Nadine Hightower: Ain't she a little on the cheap side?

Vernon Hightower: Who?

Nadine Hightower: Miss Low-Rent Lust back there.

Vernon Hightower: Renee? Are you kidding? She's got a good job with the Lone Star Beer Company.

Nadine Hightower: She don't look that smart to me.

Vernon Hightower: Well, she's smart enough to work in Accounts Receivable.

Nadine Hightower: I don't know, Vernon. She looks a little on the chubby side to be a pecan queen.

Vernon Hightower: Well, at least she doesn't spend all her time finding fault with me.

Vernon Hightower: First one comes close gets a face full of rattlesnake.

Buford Pope: Oh, goddamn it, man. You lost your mind? You let them snakes out of there, they'll go after you as well as us.

Vernon Hightower: [to Floyd] All right, you. Get your car keys out, put them on the desk. Get against the wall.

Buford Pope: You do that, boy, you'll be wrestling duck shit come Thursday night.

Vernon Hightower: Floyd, you *don't* get those car keys out here... you're gonna be wrestling a diamondback in about one minute.

Floyd: [glumly hands over the car keys] You're gonna' pay for this.

Buford Pope: Well, Mr. Hightower, let's us have a little talk here. I know you're in what they call "financial straits." So why don't you let my boys here set fire to that dump of yours? That way, at least you'll collect on the fire insurance. All you have to do is hand over the map.

Vernon Hightower: I appreciate that, but that won't do me no good now. See, I let the insurance lapse about a month ago.