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"Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"
"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
--Lewis Carroll; "Through the Looking Glass"
"Is that...?"
"Magic...the darkest magic. My soul swims in it."
--"Big Trouble in Little China"
"Oh, so you are native flesh," said the dragon, coiling her neck back as if to view Alias in this new light. "How precious. I do hate foreign mystery meat. They do put such odd things in their bodies." --Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb, "Azure Bonds"
"The others will forget. Humans have never wanted to believe in things of magic - dragons, unicorns, elves - but you know different. Remember me as I was."
"I will."
--Brian A. Hopkins, "Ivory in the Blood"
"What.. were they psychos?"
"Did they look like psychos?! Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!"
--"Lost Boys"
A Crucifix? Oy vey -- have YOU got the wrong vampire.
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys
Painted wings and giants's rings make way for other toys.
--"Puff the Magic Dragon"
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. --James Feibleman
All thy threads with magic art
Have wound themselves about this heart.
--William Cowper
And there is nothing a dragon likes so well as fresh dragon. That is why you so seldom find more than one dragon in the same country. --C.S. Lewis
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. --Arthur C. Clarke
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. --William S. Burroughs
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the AAAHHHHH THE SUN!!!!! *FOOM!* --Toreador Theatre
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Dragons don't purr. They growl friendly-like.
Dragons Rescued, Virgins Slain, no job too easy, no fee too large.
I believe in dragons, good men, and other fantasy creatures.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. --Dr. Seuss
I'm a li'l dragon, short and stout, here is my tail and here is my snout...if you tip me over, then I'll shout: "Put me on my feet or I'll rip your lungs out".
If you are what you eat, dragons are people too! --BJ Snark
If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon. --Scott Fahlman
If you don't believe in Dragons, it is curiously true, that the Dragons you disparage choose to not believe in you. --Jack Prelutsky
If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel! --Richard Bach
If you meet a dragon, slay it, run from it, feed it warm milk. But, whatever you do, NEVER ignore a dragon!
Imagination will live forever, for the Dragons flies in the hearts of those who accept them, and the unicorns stand by them for the person who loves. --Gardeth Dagrette, "Dragon Lord"
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. --J. R. R. Tolkein
It is easier not to believe in electrons than in dragons: electrons, at least taken singly, won't try to make a meal of you.
It is much easier to cast the dragon as the villain - burning fields devouring livestock and peasants, seizing beautiful princesses, and challenging knights in armour. It all makes great reading even if it isn't the truth. --Terry Brooks, "Magic Kingdom For Sale (Sold)"
It's an old magical principle -- it's even filtered down into RPG systems -- that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' -- in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course. --Terry Pratchett
Life is like a room full of dragons...You never know who is going to eat you first. --Ecator
Magic isn't our crutch, it's arcane.
Never laugh at live dragons. --J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit"
Never play leap-frog with a unicorn. --Some comic, some TV show
O Unicorn among the cedars,
To whom no magic charm can lead us,
White childhood moving like a sigh
Through the green woods.
--W. H. Auden
One more thing, whatever you do, don't look into the dragon's eyes. --Barbara Hambly, "The Walls of Air"
Only a virgin, we are told, is able to approach a unicorn. For this and other reasons, no reliable reports exist to verify the reality of this animal. --James Randi
Science asks how. Philosophy asks why. Dragons don't care.
Silly vampire. Sunlight is for humans.
Sometimes the dragon wins.
The cunning vampire paralyzes its victims with tedious wordplay before striking... --Brigand
The difference between fantasy and science fiction is that in fantasy, dragons can hover; in science fiction, they cannot.
The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. --Eden Phillpotts
There had never before been a thing of such grace and beauty in all of creation as the unicorn and never would be again. --Terry Brooks, "The Black Unicorn"
There is nothing wrong with dragons that reasoning with them won't aggravate.
There is within the human condition a compelling appetite for the fabulous, typically sated with monsters, mermaids, chimeras, hippogriffs, and an imaginative assortment of gods. Meanwhile, the real wonders are all about us, burrowing into sand and slipping ribbonlike into cracks, wonders hardly less marvelous than any unicorn. --Chet Raymo, "Honey from Stone"
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see...
One change out between two worlds
Fire walk with me
--The One Armed Man, "Twin Peaks
Umm... Can I UN-cast that Fireball? I think it made him mad.
We think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding
through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile.
What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure . . . not only are they here-and-now, they're all that ever lived on earth!
Our century, they've changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society's demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we've been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.
-- Richard Bach "The Bridge Across Forever"
We must not let daylight in upon the magic. --Walter Bagehot
What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn? --"The Last Unicorn"
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it rightaway. --Stewart Brand
Why is garlic supposed to be a problem for vampires? I don't think you can defeat an evil satanic minion with a spice rack. --Some comic, some TV show
Word to the wise: never step on the dragon's tail.
You can't soar with Dragons if you work with gargoyles.
You have little to fear brave knight, unless the dragon stops purring.
You must never run from anything immortal. It only attracts their attention. --"The Last Unicorn"
