43 Magpies Quotes
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Short Magpies Quotes
- I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. — Lord Thomson of Fleet
- I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. — Norman Cook
- Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce
- The magpie wants a lot, but its tail can’t carry it all. —
- Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt
- My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro
- I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character. — Andrew Lincoln
- Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. — Bergen Evans
- Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. — David Hockney
- We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. — Salman Rushdie
People Writing About Magpies
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Ambrose Bierce |
957 | 7203 |
 Caroline Leavitt |
28 | 128 |
 Alice Munro |
107 | 402 |
 Andrew Lincoln |
18 | 172 |
 Bergen Evans |
24 | 159 |
 David Hockney |
148 | 707 |
More Magpies Quotes
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there. — Sally Mann
That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything. — Laini Taylor
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon — Cassandra Clare
The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads. — Leonardo da Vinci
The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud With white neck peering to the evening clowd. The weary rooks to distant woods are gone. With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow While small birds nestle in the edge below. — John Clare
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs. — Laura Marling
But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much. — Tim Pratt
I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie. — Paloma Faith
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you. — David Hockney
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie. — Benedict Cumberbatch
I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. — Kenneth Branagh
I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt great food and dishes from all of the lovely people who come from overseas to live in our country. We're a magpie nation - we take the best bits of other cuisines and embrace them as our own. — Jamie Oliver
The way I've talked about my research process is that it was like magpies. I was just sort of moving through all these books and when something shiny would pop out I'd be like, Ooh, I love it! and I'd pluck it out. It's fun to figure out how to use those bits you really love - like I'd read about gold shoes with cork heels. Obviously, Margaret would have to wear those shoes. — Danielle Dutton
I probably live in the best province for independent filmmakers. Manitoba has a sort of thieving-magpie approach, trying to lift productions from other provinces as well as from other countries. It makes it very hard for me to leave. — Guy Maddin
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. — Fatboy Slim
I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. — Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game show skills Giving talks at the WI — John Walter Bratton
Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back. — Stanley Crawford
I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave. — Dara Wier
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. "Right," simon said. He had already lost count of the numbers of birds there were. Seven, he guessed. A secret that's never been told. Whatever that was. — Cassandra Clare
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide. — Salman Rushdie
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. — Francesca Lia Block
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