High Starting Torque

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

    “No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work on high things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)