High Starting Torque

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

    “Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “what most appals
    Is that tiny first shiver,
    That stumble, whereby
    We know beyond doubt
    They have almost run out
    And are starting to die.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

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