« All Herring Quotes
·
Elizabeth Bishop's Page
Herring Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
1 Herring quote by Elizabeth Bishop
More Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries…
-
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss…
-
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun…
-
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
-
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
-
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
-
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
-
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces…
-
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
-
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
-
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with…
-
Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to…
See all 35 quotes by Elizabeth Bishop »
More Herring Quotes
Popular Herring quotes from across the collection:
-
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless…
— Conrad Black
-
Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread…
— Hedrick Smith
-
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore de Balzac
-
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…
— Jude Law
-
On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any…
— Luis Marden
-
Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
— Daisy Ashford
-
Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I…
— Elizabeth Bishop
-
Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
— Tom Brown, Jr.
-
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
— John Heywood
-
Red herrings are fake clues put in place by writers and bad guys to stop you guess what's really going on. One…
— Rachel Hamilton
-
A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
— Sholom Aleichem
-
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
— John Dryden
See all Herring Quotes »
Browse Elizabeth Bishop Quotes by Category