Best Herring Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.”

Needs Trying Enough Character Difficult Novel Crime Elements Red Patterns Theme Multitudes Linked Strands Unruly Herring Crime Novels Red Herrings

Author:Ian Rankin

“Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.”

Men May Science Ocean Accounts Fishes Carrie One Man Herring

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.”

Way Middle Red Fishes Flesh Damn Steering Herring Middle Way Red Herrings

Book:The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee

Source: The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee

“If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.”

Ifs Want Women Fishes Barrels Trout Herring

Author:Ann Landers

“New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.”

Cry Hundred Titles Herring

Author:Thomas Nashe

“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.”

People Men Soul Poetry Wish Behinds He Man Worthy Oil Merit Dread Rhyme Applause Cedars Herring Time To Leave Frankincense

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”

Morning Contact Block Ice Indian Savages Tribes Rotten Anthropology Old Lady Herring Indian Tribes

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“The moon shone like herrings in the water.”

Water Moon Herring

Book:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803

Source: Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803

“We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.”

Ifs Giving Trying Names Issues Red Marijuana Herring Red Herrings

Author:Keith Stroup

“[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.”

Hands Sensitive Herring Brecht

Author:Lotte Lenya

“Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."”

Way Bigs Lasts Dies Sleep Breaths Debt Curtains Slow Down Daisies Departed Deceased Peg Push Ups Herring Mutton Big Sleep Posies Patch Up

Author:Patch Adams

“Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.”

Fiction Crime Red Trade Outcomes Tactics Doubtful Fiction Writers Withholding Herring Red Herrings

Author:Garry Disher

“Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.”

Life Is Thousand Red Work Out Civilisation Herring Red Herrings

Book:Peter Greenaway: Interviews

Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews

“Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.”

Years Lasts Grows Spring Winter Abundance Pigs Barrels Peaches Clovers Herring

Book:Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.”

Ifs Taste Eating Caviar Herring

Author:William A. Drake

“Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.”

Surprise Misfortunes Herring

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.”

Thinking Way Years Wells Might Left Bits Animal Numbers Kindness Worry Nice Fine Eating Red Treats Down And Killing Productions Billions Vegetarian Being Nice Wrenches Herring Red Herrings

Author:Mark Bittman

“Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.”

Red Old Days Hitchcock Herring Red Herrings

Author:Robert Knepper

“That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.”

Men Facts Kids America Culture Streets Middle Industry Red Scared Lust Wrong Things Creepy Mcdonalds Middle Aged Mtv Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Industry Herring Red Herrings

Author:Bill Maher

“You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Doe Real Projects Red Sweetness Herring Red Herrings

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.”

Thinking Humans Whole Causes Process Natural Ocean Majors Red Blame Climate Climate Change Patterns Dues Gas Circulation Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Co2 Herring Red Herrings

Author:William M. Gray

“In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.”

People Film Scripts Reports Landing Norwegians Herring

Author:William Monahan

“Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.”

War Care Economy Gay Red Health Care Gay Marriage Herring Red Herrings

Author:David O. Russell

“It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Character Jobs Given Acting Figures Red Essence Clue Persona Herring Red Herrings

Author:Kevin Spacey

“A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.”

Kind Pieces Bags Substitutes Kind Words Herring Oats

Author:Sholom Aleichem

“I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.”

Kind Red Combination Fake Herring Red Herrings

Author:Robert Englund

“When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and mentorship that someone like Professor James Herring had given us, was not based on gender; it was based on the notion that he wanted us to succeed.”

Care Wanted Given Succeed Understood Notion Gender Professors Love And Care Herring

Author:David C. Driskell

“The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.”

Ifs Country Used Numbers Tomorrow Mass Red Israel Corruption Sufficient Palestinian Assault Repression Cannons Fodder Herring Red Herrings

Author:Conrad Black

“There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”

Ifs Seems Sea Mass Fishes Herring Fish In The Sea Mackerel

Book:Lady chatterleys lover

Source: Lady chatterleys lover

“Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.”

Ifs Looks Children Home Eye Written Blood Love You Mouths Red Empty Mad Misery Fishes Dawn Coming Home Swim Sonnet Champagne Fingernails Fowl Sad Life Herring Red Herrings

Book:Ask the Dust

Source: Ask the Dust

“Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.”

Said Light Beautiful Night Three Wish Sea Moon Rivers Gold Shoes Fishes Silver Crystals One Night Dew Herring Wooden Shoes

Book:The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood

Source: The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood

“First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!”

Firsts Littles Two Running Found Path Cutting Tree Middle Effects Higher Layers Herring

Author:Graham Chapman

“Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.”

Believe Moving Faith Race Mountain Capable Horse Wondrous Herring Race Horses

Book:the god that failed

Source: the god that failed

“Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats”

Pure Cat Wine Oil Port Herring

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.”

Marriage Fool Husband Bigger Herring

Author:William Shakespeare

“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”

Motivational Morning Ethics Committed Vices Self Mastery Onions Good Morning Power And Control Morning After Self Power Discipline And Self Control Herring

Book:Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection

Source: Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection

“I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.”

People Thinking Kind Red Dirty Ashamed Naughty Laundry Herring Dirty Laundry Red Herrings

Author:Jude Law

“On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species of fish; in Maine they are usually small herring. Fish are penned in nets until the boats are ready to load. The fish are taken a short distance to canneries which work round the clock, according to the time of the catch.”

May Taken Ready Distance Species Rounds Fishes East Boat Clock Dawn Load Maine Herring Sardines

Author:Luis Marden

“When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.”

Years Stories Courses Class Building Red Series Careful Technique Nine Practicals Meaningless Short Story Instruction Assignments Nine Years Snowman Herring Red Herrings

Author:Sloane Crosley

“Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.”

Ifs Novel Hero Approach Red Triumph Villain Herring Red Herrings

Author:Mary Higgins Clark

“Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.”

Wells Age Names Herring

Book:The Young Visiters

Source: The Young Visiters

“Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream”

“She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.”

Red Fishes Flesh Herring Red Herrings

Author:John Heywood

“Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place.”

Age Lying Dark Taken Information Red Letters Filled Medical Deception Permanent Etc Cracks Dark Ages Armor Misinformation Efficacy Fda Tumors Herring Red Herrings Deviousness

Author:Dean Burk

“A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.”

Pieces Wise Wise Words Substitutes Quotations Herring

Author:Sholom Aleichem

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