Prevailing Torque Type

Famous quotes containing the words prevailing, torque and/or type:

    “Rarely do American parents deliberately teach their children to hate members of another racial, religious, or nationality group. Many parents, however, communicate the prevailing racial attitudes to their children in subtle and sometimes unconscious ways.”
    —Kenneth MacKenzie Clark (20th century)

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

    “Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)