No Country for Old Men Quotes

El Paso Sheriff: Yea, well, none of that explains your man though.
Ed Tom Bell: Uh-huh.
El Paso Sheriff: He's just a goddamn homicidal lunatic, Ed Tom.
Ed Tom Bell: I'm not sure he's a lunatic.
El Paso Sheriff: Yea well what would you call him?
Ed Tom Bell: Well,

sometimes I think he's pretty much a ghost.
El Paso Sheriff: Oh he's real all right.
Ed Tom Bell: Oh yea.
El Paso Sheriff: Yea all that over at the Eagle Hotel? Huh, it's beyond everything.
Ed Tom Bell: Yea. Got some hard bark on him.
El Paso Sheriff: Well... well, that don't

hardly say it. He shoots the desk clerk one day, walks right back in the next and shoots a retired army colonel.

Carla Jean's Mother: And I always seen this is what it would come to. Three years ago I pre-visioned it.
Carla Jean Moss: It ain't even three years we been married.
Carla Jean's Mother: Three years ago I said them very words. No and Good.
Cabbie at Bus Station: Yes ma'am.
Carla Jean's

Mother: Now here we are. Ninety degree heat. I got the cancer. And look at this. Not even a home to go to.
Cabbie at Bus Station: Yes ma'am.
Carla Jean's Mother: We're goin' to El Paso Texas. You know how many people I know in El Paso Texas?
Cabbie at Bus Station: No ma'am.
Carla Jean's Mother:

[She holds up thumb and forefinger curled to make an O] That's how many. Ninety degree heat.

Carson Wells: [Wells sits back and studies Moss] What do you do?
Llewelyn Moss: I'm retired.
Carson Wells: What did you do?
Llewelyn Moss: Welder.
Carson Wells: Acetylene? Mig? Tig?
Llewelyn Moss: Any of it. If it can be welded I can weld it.

Carson Wells: Cast iron?
Llewelyn Moss: Yeah.
Carson Wells: I don't mean braze.
Llewelyn Moss: I didn't say braze.
Carson Wells: Pot metal?
Llewelyn Moss: [annoyed] What did I say?

Ed Tom Bell: Any word on those vehicles yet?
Sheriff Bell's Secretary: Sheriff, I found out everything there was to find. Those vehicles are titled and registered to deceased people. The owner of that Bronco's been dead 20 years. You want me to see if I can find out anything about the Mexican ones?
Ed Tom Bell: Oh, Lord no. Here's

this month's checks.
Sheriff Bell's Secretary: That DEA agent called again. You gonna wanna talk to him?
Ed Tom Bell: Gonna try to keep from him as much as I can.
Sheriff Bell's Secretary: He's goin' back out there. Wanted to know if you wanted to go with him.
Ed Tom Bell: That's cordial of him. Can I

get you to call Loretta for me, tell her I'm going to Odessa to see Carla Jean Moss?
Sheriff Bell's Secretary: Yeah, sure.
Ed Tom Bell: I'll call her when I get there. I'd call her now but she'll want me to come home and I just might.
Sheriff Bell's Secretary: You want me to wait 'til you quit the building?
Ed

Tom Bell: Uh-huh. Don't wanna lie without what it's absolutely necessary. What is it Torbert says about truth and justice?
Sheriff Bell's Secretary: Oh... we dedicate ourselves daily anew. Somethin' like that.
Ed Tom Bell: I'm gonna commence dedicatin' myself twice daily. Might come to three times before it's over with.

Carla Jean Moss: [the cab is stopped outside the depot. Carla Jean and her mother and the driver are at the trunk struggling over bags] I got it Mama.
Carla Jean's Mother: I didn't see my Prednisone.
Carla Jean Moss: I put it in, Mama.
Carla Jean's Mother: Well I didn't see it.
Carla Jean

Moss: Well I put it in. That one. You just set there. I'll get tickets and a cart for the bags.
Well Dressed Mexican: [as Carla Jean goes to the station a man emerges from a car pulled up behind. He is a well-dressed Mexican of early middle age] Do you need help with the bags, madam?
Carla Jean's Mother: Well thank god there's one gentleman

left in West Texas. Yes thank you. I am old and I am not well.
Well Dressed Mexican: Which bus are you taking?
Carla Jean's Mother: We're going to El Paso don't ask me why. Discombobulated by a no-account son-in-law. Thank you. You don't often see a Mexican in a suit.
Well Dressed Mexican: You go to El Paso? I know it. Where

are you staying?