Proper Color

Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or color:

“A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“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)