System Reply

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or reply:

“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)

“Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)