High Starting Torque

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

    “And since our Daintie age,
    Cannot indure reproofe,
    Make not thy selfe a Page,
    To that strumpet the Stage,
    But sing high and aloofe,
    Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull Asses hoofe.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “I feel the carousel starting slowly
    And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,
    Photographs of friends, the window and the trees
    Merging in one neutral band that surrounds
    Me on all sides, everywhere I look.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

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