There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is…

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

— Francesca Lia Block

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…

— John Walter Bratton

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs,

— Laura Marling

Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and…

— Stanley Crawford

The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death.…

— Robin Olds

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

— Anonymous

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…

— David Hockney

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

— Caroline Leavitt

“Dry snow coming down in the hills. Magpies hair-triggered and thuggish in worn trees. A wall has started to fall in you, it will…

— Tim Lilburn

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

— Alice Munro

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…

— Guy Maddin

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

— Andrew Lincoln