“Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.” ShouldReasonActionPainAttentionCrimeCitizensFindingsPoliceCarefulCategoriesUnusualBe CarefulInventingOffenceUndesirable Author:A. P. Herbert
“The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.” PeopleUseLinesHumourFindingsChineseGrandfatherInventingPacificGunpowderInventivenessFirecracker Author:Lin Yutang
“The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.” DoeFormLyingOrderExpressionMaterialsPromiseFindingsEndureDiscoveringFragranceInventingRaw Materials Author:Jean-Claude Ellena
“Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.” WayWantEndsSelfPlayTaughtFindingsInstrumentsReverenceFavouriteInventingGuitaristSelf Taught Author:Bryce Dessner