Magpies Quotes
23 quotes by 21 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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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. The…
— Robin Olds
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Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings,…
— Stanley Crawford
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
— Bergen Evans
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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'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
— Fatboy Slim
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Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
— Caroline Leavitt
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The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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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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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
— Salman Rushdie
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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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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
— Alice Munro
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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
Who Wrote These Magpies Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Magpies Quotes as follows: