Top 22 Quotes About Magpies
#1. There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves.
Terry Pratchett
#2. Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.
Terry Gilliam
#3. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Bergen Evans
#4. All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#5. I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
Kenneth Branagh
#6. If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.
Steve Jobs
#7. Dry snow coming down in the hills.
Magpies hair-triggered and thuggish in worn trees.
A wall has started to fall in you, it will take years to land.
Tim Lilburn
#8. The allegation that English girls had no conversation must be true; but theirs was a SPEAKING silence. Their eyes and smiles were eloquent! She hoped it would teach their own girls that they need not chatter like magpies.
Edith Wharton
#9. I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.
John Lee Hooker
#10. My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
Alice Munro
#11. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
Salman Rushdie
#12. Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
Caroline Leavitt
#13. It's still warm; there are clouds of midges under the trees and the sunshine is streaming through the leaves, bathing the path in an oddly subterranean light. Above our heads, magpies chatter angrily.
Paula Hawkins
#15. I want limits, damn it. I'll accept omens and portents and second sight. I'll accept giant black hounds and creepy ravens and magpies. I'm still working out the fae and Wild Hunt thing. But I draw the line at people disappearing into thin air.
Kelley Armstrong
#16. 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 open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#17. I'm very superstitious ... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
Norman Cook
#18. Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
John Connolly
#19. Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together.
Jonathan Gash
#20. 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 some strange reaction, always sounds more energetic than it does later on; it's the gargling of the magpies.
John Marsden
#21. I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
Khaled Hosseini
#22. Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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