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  • Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

    Dream   Real   Men  
  • Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

    Names   Age   Wells  
    Daisy Ashford (2016). “The Young Visiters”, p.43, Daisy Ashford
  • 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.

    Sea   Mackerel   Mass  
    D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.37, D. H. Lawrence
  • She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

    Flesh   Red   Fishes  
    "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.
  • The moon shone like herrings in the water.

    Moon   Water   Herring  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • 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.

    Lying   Taken   Dark  
  • Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

    Beautiful   Moon   Night  
    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

    Flesh   Red   Way  
    John Dryden (1755). “The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee”, p.267
  • 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.

  • 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.

    John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books
  • Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

    Marriage   Husband   Fool  
    1601 Feste toViola.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.32-4.
  • 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.

    Faith   Horse   Believe  
    Andre Gide, Richard Wright, Ignasio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Louis Fischer (1965). “the god that failed”
  • I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.

    Fake   Red   Kind  
    Source: classic-horror.com
  • Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

    Fish Tanks   Flesh   Red  
  • 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.

  • Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.296
  • 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   Class   Technique  
  • 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.

    Work Out   Red   Life Is  
    Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and mentorship that someone like Professor James Herring had given us, was not based on gender; it was based on the notion that he wanted us to succeed.

    Care   Succeed   Gender  
    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.

    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    Kids   Men   Mcdonalds  
    "Real Time with Bill Maher",
  • 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.

    People   Scripts   Film  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    Real   Thinking   Red  
    Source: collider.com
  • A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

  • If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

    Women   Trout   Want  
  • 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.

  • New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

    Titles   Cry   Hundred  
  • 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.

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

    Red   Fiction   Tactics  
  • How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seamus Perry (2002). “Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection”, p.71, Oxford University Press, USA
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