A Quote by Roy Thomson

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Roy Thomson

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Anything Like Mind

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Roy Thomson
Canadian - Publisher
June 5, 1894 - August 4, 1976

I like to go out there and perform my best. I like to be the best, I like to shine, I like to be in the spotlight, so I like anything that sparkles. Anything that glitters, that's why I'm into rhinestones. Superstars wear sequins, so I wear sequins and rhinestones.

Bianca Belair

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

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Bergen Evans

I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

Laurie Graham

I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

Paloma Faith

I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.

Rhys Ifans

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

Jessica Stockholder

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

David Hockney

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

Andrew Lincoln

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Jodi Picoult

When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.

Leslie Jordan

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Laini Taylor

Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.