Magpie Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs, — Laura Marling
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, itâ€™s sort of a magpie aestheticâ€”I just go and pick up whatever is around.… — Sally Mann
I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. — Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie. — Paloma Faith
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character. — Andrew Lincoln
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. — Francesca Lia Block
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 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
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
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor
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
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
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
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
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: