High Starting Torque

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

    “If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.”
    —Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)

    “It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo; it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp.”
    —For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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