Magpies – Quotes

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It’s a magpie Christmas market. Francesca Lia Block

I\’m very superstitious… I

I’m very superstitious… I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. Fatboy Slim

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

Style is something you

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

I think I need

I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to … Read more

The way I’ve talked

The way I’ve talked about my research process is that it was like magpies. I was just sort of moving through all these books and when something shiny would pop out I’d be like, Ooh, I love it! and I’d pluck it out. It’s fun to figure out how to use those bits you really … Read more

Simon remembered a rhyme

Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that’s never been told. Right, simon said. He had already … Read more

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge

I\’m very superstitious… I

Style is something you

Style is something you

I think I need

The way I’ve talked

Simon remembered a rhyme

One for sorrow, two

Writers are magpies, and

Authors are magpies, echoing