Best Red Herrings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Six Degrees from Killing Brian

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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