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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. -- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. -- Salman Rushdie
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. -- Alice Munro
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character. -- Andrew Lincoln
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. -- Francesca Lia Block
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs. -- Laura Marling
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. -- John Connolly
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. -- Laini Taylor
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
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 always accessorise with jewellery. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewellery makes me feel more exciting and confident, too! -- Amber Le Bon
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
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
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
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
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
The nearest arched window poured its soft light over him, allowing me to seeevery inch. Dressed smartly in black loafers and slacks, he wore a thigh-length, blackcoat. He'd brushed his golden hair back, tucked behind his ears, and his cheeks lookedflushed, no doubt due to the bitter, evening air.He looks like an angel in the winter snow. The thought made me growl in irritation."Hello, Magpie."I couldn't move"Adrian. -- Elizabeth Morgan
I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie. -- Paloma Faith
I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. -- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. -- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs, -- Laura Marling
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. -- David Hockney
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story. -- Walter Kirn
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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
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
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

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