High Starting Torque

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

“The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)