Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I probably live in the best province for independent filmmakers. Manitoba has a sort of thieving-magpie approach, trying to lift productions from… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and… — Stanley Crawford Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs, — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character. — Andrew Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Suburbia Knocks by Stewart Stafford Covert dawn's surreptitious light, A magpie sentry's warning song, Swooping, scanning silent streets, Cackling danger all night… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days.… — Dara Wier Copy Share Image
There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud With white neck peering to the evening clowd. The weary rooks to distant woods… — John Clare Copy Share Image
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The way I've talked about my research process is that it was like magpies. I was just sort of moving through all… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
