Herring Quote by Charlotte MacLeod

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…

— William Monahan

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…

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Garry Disher

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…

— Keith Stroup

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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…

— Dean Burk

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

— Sholom Aleichem

That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy…

— Bill Maher

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

— Vitor Belfort

The moon shone like herrings in the water.

— Dorothy Wordsworth

“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same…

— Mark Kurlansky

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

— Leo Rosten