High Starting Torque

Famous quotes containing the words high, starting and/or torque:

    “I had a thought for no one’s but your ears:
    That you were beautiful, and that I strove
    To love you in the old high way of love;
    That it had all seemed happy, and yet we’d grown
    As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “And down in fathoms many went the captain and the crew;
    Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain
    allured:
    Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.”
    —Diane Glancy (b. 1941)