Magpies Quotes
Collection of top 24 famous quotes about Magpies
Magpies Quotes & Sayings
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My finest student, and also my greatest disappointment.
— Anthony Ryan
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
— John Connolly
Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!
— Red Buttons
Marriage is success as long as you are married to a person you truly love; otherwise, it is merely convenience and a waste of two people's time.
— Ben Tolosa
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
I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon ...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)
— Steven Heighton
All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
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.
— Norman Cook
F.B.I and C.I.A use coded words.... Don't be stupid, remove everything which shows the location. Good Luck Killer !
— Deyth Banger
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
— Pope Leo XIII
People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.
— Clayton Christensen
I am unflappable," Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he'd thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.
— Charlie Jane Anders
When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.
— Lynette Fromme
Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
— Niels Bohr
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
— Bergen Evans
Maybe my pussy wasn't good enough for him. You know what? Fuck you, you slutty, obnoxious, turd. My pussy is prime pussy.
— K.M. Golland
I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.
— Robert Pattinson
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
— Caroline Leavitt
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
— F Scott Fitzgerald