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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
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
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
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. -- Bergen Evans
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character. -- Andrew Lincoln
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. -- Caroline Leavitt
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. -- Francesca Lia Block
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. -- Ambrose Bierce
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 very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. -- Fatboy Slim
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. -- Laini Taylor
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
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
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 to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you. -- David Hockney
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 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
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
I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. -- Kenneth Branagh
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. -- Fatboy Slim
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. -- John Connolly
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
A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told -- Paula Hawkins

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