Beak/color

Famous quotes containing the words beak and/or color:

“His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,

looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)