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  • She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

    Flesh   Red   Fishes  
    "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.
  • 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  
  • 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
  • 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.

  • 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
  • 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",
  • 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
  • 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.

  • 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  
  • 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.

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

    Hero   Triumph   Red  
    "Remembering the big day: when grad met Dad" by Joshunda Sanders, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2003.
  • 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.

    "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.
  • 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 to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

    "Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Director Liza Johnson Kibitz ‘Elvis and Nixon’". Interview with Carole Di Tosti, blogcritics.org. August 8, 2016.
  • Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

    War   Gay   Care  
    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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