Torque Quotes

• Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

  Carroll Shelby

  Winning, Race, Car

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• Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

  Diane Glancy

  Mold, Use, Jello

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.75, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.

  Evel Knievel

  Jumping, Littles, Too Much

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• To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.

  Roger Ailes

  Successful, Kind, Being Successful

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• The more torque I can come up with, the better.

  Tim Lincecum

  Come Up, I Can

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• Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

  Carroll Smith

  Winning, Race, Horsepower

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• It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

  Anne Sweeney

  Worry, Failing, Can Do

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• One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

  Erich Warsitz

  Airplane, Electric Motors, Safety

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• The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Skulls, Brain, Tissues

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• For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

  Adolf Galland

  Angel, Air, Flying

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• You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Moving, Games, Play

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• Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

  Jim Goad

  Hate, Government, Law

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Years, Nuts, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.

  Anthony Lane

  Christian, Heart, Dancing

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• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Past, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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