Hal Quotes

“Mind yourself in that guardroom," Gilan told him. Thorn grinned cheerfully. He never had any stomach butterflies before a fight. "I plan to be subtle," he said.
Gilan looked at him, his head tilted curiously. "How's that?"
"Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them."
"You have a strange concept of subtle," Gilan said.
Thorn's grin grew wider, "So I've been told.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“A foolish way to get around." Hal smiled. "If the gods had meant us to ride horses, they never would have given us ships.”
― John Flanagan

“I think you're wonderful too, Hal!" Stephan said, in a workmanlike approximation of Ophelia's breathless, admiring tones. The crew laughed even harder.
Lydia snorted through her nose.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Even if the job you’re assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, Shadowcaster

“There was this jerkish son of Poseidon named Hallirrhothius. I'm not going to claim the dude as a brother. His name alone should tell you he was no good. Sounds like some kind of throat disease. I think I'll just call him Hal.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“Namun selalu ada hal-hal yang di luar kekuasaannya. Andra adalah salah satu yang berada di luar kekuasaannya.”
― Devania Annesya, X: Kenangan yang Berpulang

“A legtöbb izlandi település tőkehalak csontjaiból épült, az a pillér, ami megtartja álmaink kupolaívét.”
― Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Heaven and Hell

“A tenger iránti érdeklődését mindannyian megértjük, némelyeknek azonban nehezére esik felfogni, hogy az irodalomban mit talál olyan figyelemre méltónak. A sagák olvasása persze élvezetes, hiszen izlandiakról szólnak, néha érdekesek és elég izgalmasak is, hősök is vannak bennük, akikhez mérheti magát az ember, a népmeséket is lehet olvasgatni, a hétköznapi életről meg a bátor tettekről szóló könyveket is, sőt egy-két verset is akár, leginkább olyan költőktől, akik izlandiakról írnak, és tudnak valamit a szénabetakarításról és a jószággal való bánásról is; na de hogy egy hajóskapitány az irodalmat egy szintre emelje a hallal, hát kérem, miféle kapitány az?”
― Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Heaven and Hell

“The northern soldiers are just men,” Hal told the men in his command. “And women,” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, Shadowcaster

“Yes, I’d like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.”
― Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

“As for HAL singing “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two),” this, too, was Clarke’s contribution, including the song’s gradual devolution to near incomprehensibility at the end. The idea originated in a visit he’d made in 1962 to Bell Laboratories, where he’d heard John Kelly’s voice-synthesizer experiments with an IBM 7094 mainframe, which had coaxed the machine to sing Harry Dacre’s 1892 marriage proposal—the first song ever sung by a computer.”
― Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece