I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

“She blushed and we smiled at her, when the Magpie saw us kissing passionately below the Acacia tree.”

— Avijeet Das

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

— Alice Munro

I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

— Gabriella Wilde

When you find the jewel of a thousand empires, every small magpie is your enemy.

— Allun Hillman

“A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around…

— Colin Thiele

I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our…

— Neneh Cherry

“A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg…

— Richard Adams

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

— Patrick Cox

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

— Andrew Lincoln

“Suburbia Knocks by Stewart Stafford Covert dawn's surreptitious light, A magpie sentry's warning song, Swooping, scanning silent streets, Cackling danger all night long. Metallic…

— Stewart Stafford

I'm a magpie - I collect accessories and trinkets. But I don't have expensive tastes.

— Suranne Jones

“A butterfly stands in a puddle of melting sorbet, tasting the essence of strawberry with her feet. An ant walks past, carrying the heel…

— Pete Beebe

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

— Walter Kirn

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY,…

— Simon Schama

“The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken…

— Kate Mosse