High Starting Torque

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

“Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and superseded by elements of lower quality.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“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)