Automatic Red Card

Famous quotes containing the words automatic, red and/or card:

    “She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
    And puts a record on the gramophone.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Take a red book called TELEPHONE,
    size eight by four. There it sits.
    My red book, name, address and number.
    These are all people that I somehow own.
    Yet some of these names are counterfeit.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party—any party at all—until it is all over and the lights are being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I’ll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)