Magpie Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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…
— Dara Wier
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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…
— David Hockney
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs,
— Laura Marling
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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.…
— Sally Mann
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I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.
— Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
— Paloma Faith
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I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
— Andrew Lincoln
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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.
— Francesca Lia Block
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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
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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…
— Salman Rushdie
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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…
— Laini Taylor
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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
— Laini Taylor
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I always accessorise with jewellery. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewellery makes me feel more exciting and…
— Amber Le Bon
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I always accessorize with jewelry. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewelry makes me feel more exciting and…
— Amber Le Bon
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I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I…
— Michael Leunig
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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away…
— Laurie Graham
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When you find the jewel of a thousand empires, every small magpie is your enemy.
— Allun Hillman
Who Wrote These Magpie Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Magpie Quotes as follows: