The Wizard of Oz - sentence starters
1. “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”
2. “Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Don’t they?”
3. “Oh, I’m a failure, because I haven’t got a brain!”
4. “You see? I can’t even scare a crow. They come from miles around just to eat in my field and laugh in my face.”
5. “You’re going to see a wizard?”
7. “Pardon me! That way is a very nice way. It’s pleasant down that way too. Of course, people do go both ways.”
8. “Don’t be silly, ______. Scarecrows don’t talk.”
9. “Why, you did say something, didn’t you?”
10. “That’s the trouble. I can’t make up my mind. I haven’t got a brain. Only straw.”
11. “Oh, I’m not feeling at all well. You see, it’s very tedious being stuck up here all day long with a pole up your back.”
12. “Oh dear. That must be terribly uncomfortable. Can’t you get down?”
13. “Whoops! There goes some of me again.”
14. “Wonderful! Why, if our scarecrow back in ______ could do that, the crows would be scared to pieces.”
15. “But maybe you’d better not. I’ve got a witch mad at me, and you might get into trouble.”
16. “Witch? I’m not afraid of a witch! I’m not afraid of anything!”
17. “Look, I won’t be any trouble, because I don’t eat a thing. And I won’t try to manage things because I can’t think. Won’t you take me with you?”
18. “Hooray! We’re off to see a wizard!”
19. “Well, about a year ago, I was chopping that tree, when suddenly it began to rain. And right in the middle of a chop, I rusted solid. I’ve been that way ever since.”
20. “Perfect? Bang on my chest if you think I’m perfect. Go ahead, bang on it.”
21. “Beautiful! What an echo!”
22. “It’s empty. The ______ forgot to give me a heart.”
23. “What did you do that for? I didn’t bite him/her.”
24. “Well, you didn’t have to go and hit me, did you? Is my nose bleeding?”
25. “Why you’re nothing but a great big coward!”
26. “You’re right, I am a coward! I haven’t any courage at all! I even scare myself!”
27. “Wouldn’t you feel degraded to be seen in the company of a cowardly ______? I would.”
28. “It’s been in me so long. I just gotta tell you how I feel.”
29. “S/he isn’t coming yet, _____. Did s/he hurt you? S/he tried to, didn’t s/he?”
30. “______, please, I’m trying to count.”
32. “Next time s/he squawks, walk right up to her/him and spit in her/his eye! That’s what I’d do.”
33. “What’s the matter? Gonna let a little old pig make a coward out of you?”
34. “Someplace where there isn’t any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, _____?”
35. “No, no! I won’t let you take him/her/them! You go away, or I’ll bite you myself!”
36. “They’ll be coming back for you in a minute. We’ve got to get away! We’ve got to run away!”
37. “Why, it’s just like you could read what was inside of me.”
38. “______, that’s not polite! We haven’t been asked yet.”
39. “You’d better close your eyes, _____, for a moment, in order to be better in tuned with the Infinite. We can’t do these things without reaching out into the Infinite.”
40. “You don’t suppose s/he could really be sick, do you?”
41. “It’s a twister! It’s a twister!”
42. “_____…. I have a feeling we’re not in _____ anymore.”
43. “Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?”
44. “But I already told you, I’m not a witch at all. Witches are old and ugly.”
45. “I beg your pardon, but I’ve never heard of a beautiful witch before.”
46. “Let the joyous news be spread, the wicked old witch at last is dead!”
47. “I thought you said s/he was dead.”
48. “Who killed my ______? Who killed ______? Was it you?”
49. “No. No, it was an accident. I didn’t mean to kill anybody!”
50. “It’s too late! There they are, and there they’ll stay.”
51. “You stay out of this, _____, or I’ll fix you as well!”
52. “I’ll get you, my pretty. And you’re little ______ too!”
53. “I’m afraid you’ve made rather a bad enemy of ______. The sooner you get out of _____ altogether, the safer you’ll sleep.”
54. “People come and go so quickly here!”
55. “Are you hinting my apples aren’t what they ought to be?”
56. “I’ll show you how to get apples.”
57. “I don’t like this forest. It’s dark and creepy.”
58. “Of course I don’t know, but I think it’s gonna get darker before it gets lighter.”
59. “Do you suppose we’ll meet any wild animals?”
60. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Just like I knew it would be.”
61. “I believe there’s spooks around here.”
62. “Don’t you believe in spooks?”
63. “Who would have thought that a good little girl/boy like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?”
64. “S/he’s dead. You killed her/him.”
65. “You can’t rest now. We’re nearly there.”
66. “Unusual weather we’re having, ain’t it?”
67. “Who rang that bell?”
68. “What kind of a horse is that? I’ve never seen a horse like that before!”
69. “And I was so happy. I thought I was on my way home.”
70. “I am _____, the great and powerful! Who are you?”
71. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself, frightening him/her/them like that when he/she/they came to you for help!”
72. “You see that? That’s how much longer you’ve got to be alive. And it isn’t long, _____, it isn’t long!”
73. “I hope my strength holds out.”
74. “______’s in that awful place?”
75. “Do you think it would be polite, dropping in like this?”
76. “Come on, I’ve got another idea.”
77. “Going so soon? I wouldn’t hear of it. Why, my little party’s just beginning.”
78. “If you were really great and powerful, you’d keep your promises!”
79. “I’m afraid it’s true. There’s no other wizard except me.”
80. “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
81. “Frightened? You are talking to a wo/man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified.”
82. “I can’t come back! I don’t know how it works!”
83. “Now I know I’ve got a heart, because it’s breaking.”
84. “There’s no place like home.”
85. “Doesn’t anybody believe me?”
