Billina Quotes in Return to Oz (1985)

[regarding headless statues]

Dorothy: Look, Billina, these ones have lost their heads.

Billina: Now, that's what I call just plain carelessness

Billina: We come all this way to see a bunch a stiffs.

Billina: Some place for a chicken coop! How big is this pond anyway?

Dorothy Gale: I don't think it's a pond, Billina.

[gets up and looks around]

Dorothy Gale: I guess it is a pond.

Billina: Hmm, told you so.

Dorothy Gale: Where did all the rest of the water go?

Dorothy Gale: Yeah, where did Kansas go? Ohh, this is some place for a chicken coop.

Dorothy Gale: When did you learn to talk anyway? I thought hens could only cluck and cackle.

Billina: Strange, ain't it? How's my grammar?

Billina: What is this, a man or a melon?

Jack Pumpkinhead: A pumpkin, if you please.

Dorothy: Oh no...

Billina: That's just a yellow brick.

Dorothy: No, Billina. This was the yellow brick road. It leads to the Emerald City!

The Nome King: Don't you know that eggs are poison?

Billina: Poison, indeed!

The Nome King: Poison... poison to... nomes.

Jack Pumpkinhead: [the trio are assembling the Gump together, but Tik-Tok's brains are running down] Here's a broom Tik-Tok, it'll make a great tail.

Tik-Tok: Excellent. Now we must Gump the head at the front, and tie Jack's feet together.

Jack Pumpkinhead: Right. Tie my feet together

[Jack does so]

Tik-Tok: Bring that mantlepiece to the desk, and then annoint the palms!

Jack Pumpkinhead: Right, annoint the-

[Jack falls due to his feet being tied]

Tik-Tok: That is right Jack. Left, right, wrong.

Jack Pumpkinhead: What are you talking about Tik-Tok?

Tik-Tok: Little girl, squaking eggs, make chicken fly the coop.

Billina: Coop?

Dorothy: Patented Clockwork Mechanical Man. Does everything but live. For Thinking, wind number 1 under left arm. For Speaking, wind number 2 under right arm. For Walking & Action, wind number 3, middle of back. Guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.

Billina: Aww, you don't believe that do ya?

Dorothy: I don't know. I'll wind him up and we'll see.