Top 66 Quotes About Herring
#1. It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same meaning derived from the same Anglo-Saxon root.
Mark Kurlansky
#2. There is a phrase "neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab. There was certainly some red, and a lot of flapping, and Nutt was sure he caught a glimpse of an enormous sandal ...
Terry Pratchett
#4. Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
Damian Lewis
#5. I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
William Devane
#7. A blanket of herring clouds was rolling in from the east.
John Steinbeck
#8. 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.
Jude Law
#9. 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.
William Monahan
#10. Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.
Robert Knepper
#11. 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.
Bill Maher
#12. Concocting a statement that you have trouble believing in the first place (such as "A herring is a mammal"), and then negating it, requires two bouts of cognitive heavy lifting rather than one.
Steven Pinker
#13. Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.
Rohinton Mistry
#14. Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.
William A. Drake
#15. 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.
Mary-Louise Parker
#16. There are billions of gods in the world. They swarm as thick as herring roe. Most of them are too small to see and never get worshipped, at least by anything bigger than bacteria, who never say their prayers and don't demand much in the way of miracles.
Terry Pratchett
#17. Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.
Great. Now we have another red herring on our hands.
A.F. Stewart
#18. He is ever inglorious
His laugh is laborious
His smell is notorious
Impale the herring king!
Shannon Hale
#19. 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.
D.H. Lawrence
#20. Books are beacons that shine light into our thoughts.
-Redmond Herring 2015
Redmond Herring
#21. At the door fo the dining-room he left us. 'Good night, Mr Jorkins,' he said. 'I hope you will pay us another visit when you next "cross the herring pond".' 'I say, what did your governor mean by that? He seemed almost to think I was American.' 'He's rather odd at times.
Evelyn Waugh
#22. Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
David O. Russell
#24. Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
Daisy Ashford
#25. A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
Sholom Aleichem
#26. When these early settlers hunted, they would leave red herring along their trail because the strong smell would confuse wolves, which is the origin of the expression red herring, meaning "a false trail.
Mark Kurlansky
#28. [Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.
Lotte Lenya
#29. Hope is an investment that never fails the investor; don't read the Red Herring prospectus before investing in hope.
Mayank S. Sengar
#30. If she were lying on a plate with a herring, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Woody Allen
#31. Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
John Dryden
#32. Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.
Nicholas Dawidoff
#33. When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.
Mark Billingham
#34. The fact is I am a compulsive reader. Thirty-five cents' worth of Gold Medal Original will put me right to sleep. Or Perry Mason. But I'll read the ads in an old Paris-Match that has been used to wrap herring before I'll do without.
Robert A. Heinlein
#35. At our production company, the trademark dish - and this sounds particularly revolting - is curried pickled herring.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#36. Good stuff!" [Knud] said. "All organic, of course! All fresh! We take care of the earth here! You like smoked herring? You will. Of course you will! I work in iron, though I have also done some of these wood carvings. All of my work is based on traditional Danish art. I am a Viking! Eat!
Maureen Johnson
#37. 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.
Keith Stroup
#38. 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.
William M. Gray
#39. Your explanation is good, but your herring doesn't fry, as we say in Ramaldah, he exploded.
Andrew Ashling
#40. When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how,
this is not a red herring; it's a map.
Gina Greenlee
#41. Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.
Jonathan Harnum
#42. If you accomplish nothing in life... do not tell your friends... they expected it. If you accomplish success in life... find new friends,"... Redmond Herring
Redmond Herring
#43. Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.
Hedrick Smith
#44. If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
Ann Landers
#45. 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.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#46. Oily, cold-water fish from remote, pollution-free waters (anchovies, herring, mackerel, salmon, sardines) are some of the most nutrient-rich foods on the planet: no other food comes close to their omega-3 levels.
Mark Sisson
#47. 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.
Arthur Koestler
#48. I'm Norwegian and our ghosts don't care about nookie, just raiding, blood feuds, and herring recipes.
Ani Gonzalez
#49. I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue.
Lemony Snicket
#50. The outbreak of war in 1792 offered enticing opportunities to attain longstanding
George C. Herring
#51. Water is essential for life, books are essential for knowledge.
Redmond Herring
#52. If I've learned anything in the past six months, it's that life is a fickle little bitch and there's not one damn thing I can do to tame her. It's almost laughable, really.
Ashley Herring Blake
#53. Society is the dynamic equilibrium of public complaint.
Del Herring
#54. Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
Oliver Herring
#56. Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to be open enough to let the magic happen, instead of trying to make it happen because magic is never made.
Jimmy Herring
#57. You and I, in our quest for truth, must set ourselves on a higher level. If the worldly reasoner
is like a butcher, we wish not to be found like them - minus fingers or thumbs. Spiritual reasoning
can be a very sharp blade; it behooves us, then, to 'rightly divide'.
D.L. Herring
#58. The great Jewish Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, "The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use" ('God in Search of Man' p34)
Paul F Herring
#59. Everyone is a creative agent ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.
Oliver Herring
#60. Part of the value of TASK is not to invest into anything permanent; to really celebrate the moment-the fluidity of creative action.
Oliver Herring
#62. Arguments should be about understanding other people better, sharing ideas and finding mutually beneficial ways ahead.
Jonathan Herring
#63. It's not what's in the looks that counts - it's what's in the broeks that counts!
Simon Herring
#64. Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming. (p.18)
Laraine Herring
#65. His own finance system was simple: whatever he got, he spent.
Peg Herring
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