Noel Langley > Quotes

“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
- Wizard”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“What a world, what a world. Who would have thought that. some little girl like you could. destroy my beautiful wickedness.
- Wicket Witch of the West”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home.”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“WHAT? YOU AGAIN?' he shouted in capital letters.”
― Noel Langley, The Land of Green Ginger

“When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.”
― Noel Langley, The Land of Green Ginger

“He was singing a song he had composed entirely without professional assistance.”
― Noel Langley, The Land of Green Ginger

“Desist!’ cried the wicked Prince Tintac Ping Foo in a sizzling frenzy. ‘I came here to buy a magic carpet! One that flies! Show me what you have!”
― Noel Langley, The Land of Green Ginger

“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.-Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz (1939)”
― Noel Langley