High Starting Torque

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

“The high wore away, the chromed skeleton corroding hourly, flesh growing solid, the drug-flesh replaced with the meat of his life. He couldn’t think. He liked that very much, to be conscious and unable to think.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)

“But even at the starting post, all sleek and new,
I saw the wildness in her and I thought
A vision of terror that it must live through
Had shattered her soul.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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