Quotes About Red Herrings

#1. America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

Bill Maher

#2. With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.

Martin Henderson

#3. Creating red herrings

Ernie Lindsey

#4. I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.

Angel Olsen

#5. 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.

Peter Greenaway

#6. I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor.

Molly Harper

#7. Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend.

David J. Schwartz

#8. Don't stagnate because of fear.

Beth Revis

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

Garry Disher

#10. I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

Ruud Gullit

#11. Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

John Perry

#12. Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

#13. 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.

Ian Rankin

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

Mary Higgins Clark

#15. Just because you've a best Insurance, doesn't mean you've to collide intentionally.

Sarvesh Jain

#16. 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Timothy Dalton

#17. Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

David Halberstam

#18. My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

Jessica White

#19. It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.

Jenni Rivera

#20. As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists & turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.

Anthony Horowitz

#21. I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative.

Donald Trump