Quotes About Magpie

#1. I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.

Neneh Cherry

#2. Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.

Larry Woiwode

#3. One magpie is bad luck,' said Molly. 'One for sorrow, two for mirth. Three for a wedding, four for a birth. Five for rich, six for poor. Seven for a witch, I can tell you no more.

Lili Wilkinson

#4. That all hair?'" "Did you see it? It was like a cross between a magpie nest and ball of yarn after it's been mauled by a cheetah." A beat. Then, "A cheetah?

Marissa Meyer

#5. Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

David Hockney

#6. He was as pretty as a magpie, and just as annoying when he opened his mouth.

Lynn Lovegreen

#7. I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Simon Schama

#8. Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. She blushed and I smiled when we saw the Magpie look at us while we kissed below the Acacia tree!

Avijeet Das

#10. She blushed and we smiled at her, when the Magpie saw us kissing passionately below the Acacia tree.

Avijeet Das

#11. I probably live in the best province for independent filmmakers. Manitoba has a sort of thieving-magpie approach, trying to lift productions from other provinces as well as from other countries. It makes it very hard for me to leave.

Guy Maddin

#12. 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 dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.

Laini Taylor

#13. That's a guess. Only a guess, but a raven's guess is worth more than a magpie's. Aurrk!"

T. Kingfisher

#14. I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

Steven Hall

#15. I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.

Rhys Ifans

#16. I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

Paloma Faith

#17. You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration.
'I have a mind like a magpie's, easily distracted by interesting odds and ends,' Ramses admitted.

Elizabeth Peters

#18. I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Laura Marling

#19. Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Laini Taylor

#20. I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

Andrew Lincoln

#21. My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!

Bindi Irwin

#22. I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Walter Kirn

#23. A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.

Richard Adams

#24. 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 could understand.

Michael Leunig

#25. I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Roy Thomson

#26. The Magpie took off her glove and looked scornfully at him. Basta likes to use snakes to scare woman that reject his advances. It didn't work with Resa. How did it go exactly - didn't she finally put the snake outside your door, Basta?

Cornelia Funke

#27. When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Haruki Murakami

#28. A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.
This magpie was like that.

Colin Thiele

#29. The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below.

John Clare

#30. My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird."
Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It didn't seem the time.

V.E Schwab

#31. Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan
That's the fate of every Magpie
While Mam perfects her game show skills
Giving talks at the WI

John Walter Bratton

#32. Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market.

Francesca Lia Block

#33. 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

#34. I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

Laurie Graham

#35. 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 confident, too!

Amber Le Bon

#36. My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Alice Munro