Magpies Quotes

23 Magpies quotes by 21 unique 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, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up whatever is around.… — Sally Mann
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
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
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. — Bergen Evans
I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. — Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. — Fatboy Slim
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt
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
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
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. — Salman Rushdie
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
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro
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
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two… — Cassandra Clare
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly

Who Wrote These Magpies Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 Magpies Quotes as follows: