logo

Quotes About Halt

The tall man grinned. "Presumably you'll use your saxe knife, as usual?" "I'll use anything I can get my hands on," the beggar said ruefully, scratching away. The tall man's grin widened. "Well, it'll be nice to have you back to your normal self, Halt," he said.
~ John Flanagan
Halt regarded them both with a withering look. They both refused to wither, so he abandoned the expression.
~ John Flanagan
Halt smiled at him. 'People love talking to me,' he said. 'I'm an excellent conversationalist and I have a sparkling personality. Ask Horace, I've been bending his ear all the way from Dun Kilty, haven't I?
~ John Flanagan
The faintest hint of a smile touched Halt's pale face.
~ John Flanagan
Good idea," he said. Then he frowned as a thought struck him. "Have you noticed that Leander puts milk in his coffee?" Halt grunted. "The man's a savage." Crowley raised an eyebrow. "This from the man who laces his coffee with honey?" "Honey is natural," Halt told him. "Milk is little short of an abomination.
~ John Flanagan
Bij de tanden van Gorlog!' riep Erak uit, verbijsterd door de hoeveelheden. 'Hoeveel zijn dat er wel niet?' 'Ik schat zo'n tien-, misschien twaalfduizend,' antwoordde Halt kortaf. De Skandiër floot zachtjes. 'Denk je? Hoe weet je dat?'... Halt keek hem ironisch aan. 'Dat leer je in de cavalerie,' antwoordde hij. 'Je telt de benen en dan deel je dat door vier!
~ John Flanagan
Halt never ceased to be fascinated by the way women, young or old, big or small, could not resist the temptation to feed Horace.
~ John Flanagan
You know, there are some people who might think it was a good career move to show sympathy for their commanding officer's problems," he said. Then he sighed."But very few of those people were trained by Halt.
~ John Flanagan
Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?" "If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start," Halt told him. "But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.
~ John Flanagan
that Graybeard Halt he cuts his hair with a carving knife and fork.
~ John Flanagan
Hij handelde volledig op instinct, een ongelooflijk voorbeeld van hand-oogcoördinatie. Toen de pijl van de Senshi neer kwam suizen, recht op Shigeru af, sloeg Will er met zijn boog naar en wist hem uit koers te meppen. De pijl kletterde zonder iets geraakt te hebben een eindje verder op de grond. Zelfs Halt was onder de indruk. 'Mijn hemel!' zei hij. 'Hoe kreeg je dat voor elkaar?
~ John Flanagan
So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's Digby got to complain about?" Rodney asked. It was obvious from his tone that he felt no sympathy for the recalcitrant commander of Barga Hold. The Baron gestured for Lady Pauline to explain. Apparently," she said,"Halt threw him into the moat.
~ John Flanagan
I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts. 'That soot is filthy. I'll probably come down with half a dozen infections.' Probably,' Horace had replied, distracted by his task. 'But we'll only need you for today.' Which was not a very comforting thought for Halt.
~ John Flanagan
Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.
~ John Flanagan
On the solstice: "The tilting of the earth may very well have stopped at the winter solstice, creaking to a halt and starting back the other way, but I was down in the basement at the time, running a power saw, and didn't hear a thing.
~ John Jerome
There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.
~ Sylvester Stallone
What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.
~ Keala Settle
Acceleration stalled
~ John P. Kotter
Then out of the darkness a deep voice commanded, "Halt, in the name of the Continental Army!" "Halt?" Tony whispered. "Is he kidding?
~ Elvira Woodruff
Besides, life was not precious, for what was the body after all, but carrion, and the sojourn on earth but a halt on the way to eternal life?
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.
~ John Flanagan
Marsyas skidded to a halt, the assorted satyrs, fauns, and Maenads behind bumping into him and each other in a concertina of confusion.
~ Stephen Fry
If Possible, Make Peace. If Not, Put A Full Stop.
~ Monojit Dutta
If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
~ Caitlin Moran