Magic A Is Magic A/Quotes

""Now you might think I'd be all over this Shapeshifting business, Paxto, but if comic books, cartoons, and Sci-Fi Original Movies have taught me anything, it's that shapeshifting comes with a bunch of boring rules and restrictions that limit its potential Turn-Into-A-Bulldozer-Whenever-I-Wantity. 'You can turn into a machine gun but not bullets.' 'Contemporary jazz turns you back to normal.' 'You can only turn into presents your grandma's knitted for you.'""

- Strong Bad, Homestar Runner (sbemail shapeshifter)

"''There are two kinds of magic in the world: Magic as a force that can grant the wondrous... and then there's narrative magic. The kind where we get the classic phrase:"It's magic we don't have to explain it"."

- Linkara in his review of Superman: Distant Fires.

""But Magic is as Magic does. Just funny that way.""

- 'Granny Smith, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, "Family Appreciation Day"

"An author's ability to solve conflict satisfactorily with magic is directly proportional to how well the reader understands said magic."

- Sanderson's First Law

"Fun fact about voodoo, Larry: can't conjure a *thing* for myself."

- Doctor Facilier, The Princess and The Frog

"Y'see, demons can't resurrect people unless a deal's made. I know, red tape, it'll make you nuts."

- Azazel, Supernatural