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Quotes About Dorothy

The alien girl—she called herself Dorothy—was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying.
~ Gregory Maguire
I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
~ Gregory Maguire
Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly.
~ Gregory Maguire
I started as a fairy on the 'Dorothy the Dinosaur Show.' That was mainly just a national tour that featured Dorothy the Dinosaur.
~ Emma Watkins
Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land
~ baum
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
~ Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hamilton's Techniques of Classic Cuisine.
~ Bill Buford
The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
~ Sally Phillips
Where's Dorothy?" Dad said. "I don't know. She came in, took the money and went. I don't even know how she got in." "What did she say?" "She said "shush"" "And what did you say?" "I shushed
~ Frank Cottrell Boyce
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
~ Dorothy Kilgallen
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
~ Dorothy Allison
Many of these books were quite good, most were middle-of-the-road, and a few brought to mind a review by Dorothy Parker, in which she stated, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.
~ Dorothy Parker
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
~ Dorothy Parker
The wicked Witch of the East.
~ L. Frank Baum
I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy. "Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.
~ L. Frank Baum
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Well I ain't Dr. Phil, but I'm smart, she said. And your shoes are cuter than his, I said, trying to sound at least semi-normal. Yeah they remind me of Dorothy's ruby slippers, only mine are wedges 'cause I'm more fashion conscious than she was.
~ P.C. Cast
What was her fearsome secret?" I told her what Dorothy had told me. "It sounds like a lot of hooey." "Why?" "Why not? Everything else we've got from them has been hooey.
~ Dashiell Hammett
In a way more felt than thought, he sensed a connection between Nipper's absence and Dorothy's words, which had been haunting him without letup.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
spectacle of Dorothy Thompson at Madison Square Garden — tall, fair, blue-eyed, and laughing in her evening gown at twenty-two thousand "little men" — was not a thing to be forgotten.
~ Unknown
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
~ David Levithan
The steam rolled out as I opened the container and prepared to eat Dorothy's famous Brookville, Kansas, recipe chicken. It was a religious experience.
~ Craig Johnson