Magpies Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Two things attract magpies: sparkly stuff and roadkill. This particular funeral is a jackpot for magpies.”

— Blythe Woolston

“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy.…

— Salman Rushdie

Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow,…

— Cassandra Clare

“magpies, jays, sparrowhawks, kestrels, all”

— Monty Don

“You cannot hear the birds for all the gossip.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.”

— Martin Amis

“All’s well here. Hope your life is full of mice, moles, voles, butterflies, and the occasional inattentive bird. In Catitude, Sneaky Pie”

— Rita Mae Brown

“MCs don't just rhyme sounds, they rhyme ideas.”

— Adam Bradley

“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my…

— Junot Díaz

“There's nothing like the very early morning. It's the sweetness of the air, the sweet coolness; it's the bubbling of the creek which, for…

— John Marsden

“That is for me decide, not you. It is said that only fools stand in the way of a new idea; I trust, magisters,…

— Sarah Prineas

“you know as well as I do how much information can be generated by a fat bag of Galleons, a refusal to hear the…

— J.K. Rowling