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Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
You got rid of him?” “For the moment,” Winter said. “Nothing confuses an officer like violently agreeing with him.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
Three men can keep a secret only once two of them are at the bottom of the river.
Django Wexler (The Price of Valor (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while.
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
He expects me turn up for the inspection, glance through all of this, and then scurry back to Ohnlei to get on with my life. Marcus gave a rueful smile. More fool him. He doesn't know I haven't got a life.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
Never underestimate what can be accomplished by a little bacon at the right moment,
Django Wexler (The Guns of Empire (The Shadow Campaigns, #4))
When they join up, they know I might have to spend their lives, but they trust that I’ll get a good price.
Django Wexler (The Guns of Empire (The Shadow Campaigns, #4))
But there was never any arguing with Janus, least of all from the other end of a flik-flik line.
Django Wexler (The Price of Valor (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
If this works, it' going to be one of those things that get written down in the history books. He wondered, briefly, what he should say. Oh well. I can always think of something clever later to tell the historians. "Come on!" He chopped downward, toward the enemy. "Let's get the bastards!
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
You can’t eat goat,” Buck said. “It ain’t natural. If God had wanted us to eat goat, he wouldn’t’ve made it taste like shit.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
Raesinia wondered if Maurisk, in the barricaded offices of the Hotel Ancerre, repeated it to himself. Janus is coming.
Django Wexler (The Price of Valor (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
They both offered Winter crisp salutes, but the expression on their faces made her uncomfortable. It was the look of Women meeting a legend. When did I become a legend?
Django Wexler (The Price of Valour (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
Is that what love is supposed to look like? Wanting the best for another person, regardless of what it means for yourself?
Django Wexler (The Price of Valor (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
A certain understanding passed between them, the shared feeling of men tasked with keeping a superior from absentmindedly killing himself. Marcus suppressed a smile.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path.
Django Wylie (The Middle)
- Acho que a conheço de algum lado. Tenho essa sensação. - Claro - disse ela, farta de ouvir aquilo. Mas quando olhou para ele, sentiu a mesma coisa. - Vou tocar agora - informou Korda, apontando para o palco com o polegar. - É músico? - Sou. Quer que toque alguma coisa especial? - Poderia tocar uma música chamada Tears? - Do Django? Claro. Gosta dessa música? - Para ser sincera, não a conheço. Mas sinto que devo forçar o destino.
Afonso Cruz (A Boneca de Kokoschka)
But you...I felt that you would not be used. Would not allow yourself to be used. You deserve the opportunity to make your own choices, to walk your own path. Indeed, I believe you will do so, regardless of what Ending, Geryon, or anyone else intends. You must do what you believe to be right.
Django Wexler (The Mad Apprentice (The Forbidden Library, #2))
The name meant "Angel of Victory," which Jaffa supposed was appropriate enough. The Divine Hand himself had started the fashion for taking the names of angels when he'd called himself Vale-dan-Rahksa, the Angel of Vengeance. At the rate the Council was expanding, there would soon be a serious shortage of angels. Jaffa wondered what would happen when they ran out of manly, intimidating names and were reduced to naming themselves after the Angel of Sisterly Affection or the Angel of Small Crafts.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.
Django Wylie (The Middle)
It was always good to know that things in the field really were the way the officers had said they’d be, if only because this so rarely turned out to be the case.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
Sooner or later, Captain, we all must take something on faith.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
Can you be haunted by someone who isn’t dead?
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
Marcus, whose appreciation of wine began and ended with what color it was, nodded uncertainly.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
You’re not very loyal,” Isaac said as Alice took his hand. “Loyalty,” Ashes sniffed, “is for dogs. Cats have better sense.
Django Wexler (The Palace of Glass (The Forbidden Library #3))
Monsieur Django, I presume?” Duke Ellington said, offering his hand. “Monsieur
Mitch Albom (The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto)
Barely pausing between songs, he played American compositions like “St. Louis Blues” and “Tiger Rag.” He played “Parfum” from the gypsy legend Django Reinhardt. He
Mitch Albom (The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto)
Django Reinhardt
Haruki Murakami (First Person Singular: Stories)
for example, the wealthy planter Quentin Tarantino portrays in Django Unchained is prepared to sell beautiful Broomhilda for only $700 but wants $12,000 for his best fighting slaves.
Thomas Piketty (Capital in the Twenty-First Century)
He called me a coward and a traitor,” Janus said. “How refusing to sit behind the walls of Ashe-Katarion makes me a coward, I’m not sure I understand, but no doubt the minds of royalty work in mysterious ways.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
While I hate to cast aspersions on the humble army cutters, their knowledge tends toward the practical, and their approach is often... blunt. If the problem cannot be removed from the patient with a bone saw, they are often at a loss.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
It is a terrible moment when you realise you’ll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you’ll never have a superlative experience. You’ll go to a Gala Bingo rather than Vegas; get your own office, but not be a CEO; and get a gravestone, but not in Poet’s Corner. You’ll never sleep with the girls on the TV. And all of this mediocrity was made worse by the fact of its inescapable prevalence.
Django Wylie
HE WAS KNOWN As DJANGO, a Gypsy name meaning "I awake." His legal name-the name the gendarmes and border officials entered into their journals as his family crisscrossed Europe in their horsedrawn caravan-was jean Reinhardt. But when the family brought their travels to a halt alongside a hidden stream or within a safe wood to light their cookfire, they called him only by his Romany name. Even among his fellow Gypsies, "Django" was a strange name, a strong, telegraphic sentence due to its first-person verb construction. It was a name of which Django was exceedingly proud. It bore an immediacy, a sense of life, and a vision of destiny.
Michael Dregni (Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend)
It never was about the musician or the instrument - it was about the laser notes in a hall of mirrors, the music itself. It was going to change the world for the better and it has. Maybe not as fast or as much as we wanted, but it has and it still will. Whether your name is Mozart, or Django Reinhardt, or Robert Johnson, or Jimi Hendrix, or whoever is next; who you are doesn't matter so long as you can open that conduit and let the music come through. It is the burning edge, whatever it sounds like and whoever is playing it. It is the noisy, messy, silly, invincible voice of life that comes through the LP on the turn-table, the transistor radio, or the Bose in your new Lexus that makes you want to get up out of whatever you are stuck in and dance. It is Dionysus and the Maenads all over again. No one can control it and I pity whoever tries. I am old now and only a house cat sunning herself in the window - but I was a tigress once, and I remember. I still remember.
G.J. Paterson (Bird of Paradise)
You missed your place as a knight-errant three hundred years ago. Always defend a lady, always stand by a friend, and never betray your lord.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
He'd sometimes thought that the War College was really a thinly disguised royal subsidy to the local tavern industry.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
I can’t say that I disagree, but I still don’t follow his reasoning.” “The joys of serving under Janus bet Vhalnich,” Marcus said, carefully under his breath.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
Hate makes people stupid.
Django Wexler (Ship of Smoke and Steel (The Wells of Sorcery, #1))
I feel her eyes on me like a shaft of sunlight, warming my skin wherever it touches.
Django Wexler (Ship of Smoke and Steel (The Wells of Sorcery, #1))
And now that she knew, she couldn't do nothing. She couldn't. The anger would build inside he, on and on, forever until it poisoned her
Django Wexler (The Mad Apprentice (The Forbidden Library, #2))
COOL JAZZ: RECOMMENDED LISTENING Chet Baker, “But Not for Me,” February 15, 1954 Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, “You Go to My Head,” October 1952 Miles Davis and Gil Evans, “Blues for Pablo,” May 23, 1957 Miles Davis, “Fran Dance,” May 26, 1958 Miles Davis, “So What,” March 2, 1959 Stan Getz, “Moonlight in Vermont,” March 11, 1952 Modern Jazz Quartet, “Django,” December 23, 1954 Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, “Line for Lyons,” September 2, 1952
Ted Gioia (How to Listen to Jazz)
I’m sorry, sir. She was a good soldier.” “She might have disagreed with you,” Marcus said with a slight smile. “But you’re right. In the end it’s not all about crisp salutes and shiny boots.” Fitz, who had both, kept a diplomatic silence.
Django Wexler (The Guns of Empire (The Shadow Campaigns, #4))
Being part of an attack was a strange thing, Marcus had always thought. It was like being a component in a larger organism, something that could live or die, stand or flee, all on its own and independent of the will of the men who made it up. Sometimes it drove you onward, into the face of what seemed like certain death, in spite of every instinct screaming for flight. Other times, you could feel it falling apart, turning at bay like a whipped dog, hunkering down or turning tail to run.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
God,” he said, “I never want to do that again. I felt like everyone on the street was watching me.” “You look ridiculous in that cloak,” Maurisk said. “You might as well carry a sign saying ‘I’m up to no good.’” “I’d be happy to,” Faro said. “Much safer than one saying ‘I’m carrying enough money to buy a small city.’ Besides, it’s essential. Cloak-and-dagger work, you know? Cloak”—he pushed the cloak back, revealing a steel gleam at his belt, opposite where he normally buckled his sword—“and dagger! I wouldn’t feel properly dressed otherwise.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
RESURRECTION OF DJANGO He was born in a gypsy caravan and spent his early years on the road in Belgium, playing the banjo for a dancing bear and a goat. He was eighteen when his wagon caught fire and he was left for dead. He lost a leg, a hand. Goodbye road, goodbye music. But as they were about to amputate, he regained the use of his leg. And from his lost hand he managed to save two fingers and become one of the best jazz guitarists in history. There was a secret pact between Django Reinhardt and his guitar. If he would play her, she would lend him the fingers he lacked.
Eduardo Galeano (Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone)
He noticed—it was impossible not to notice—that Raesinia was wearing a sheer silk nightgown that did little or nothing to hide the shape of the figure beneath it. A woman’s figure, Marcus had to admit. The queen’s diminutive height made it easy to forget that she’d passed her twentieth year.
Django Wexler (The Price of Valour (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
What our friend the duke does not understand is that a perfect record of treachery is just as predictable as one of impeccable loyalty. You simply must always expect to be stabbed in the back, and you’ll never be surprised. Keeping faith occasionally would make him much harder to anticipate.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
As the Colonials settled down in Ashe-Katarion, Janus asked Marcus to come up with a detail of twenty men he thought he could trust to keep a secret. Marcus was tempted to reply that twenty men could keep a secret only if you sank nineteen of them in the river, and even then you’d have to keep an eye on the last one.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
When we weigh up the balance sheet of our lives, it's always easy to see the costs. People we've hurt, mistakes we've made. But the other side of the balance can be harder to make out. How do you measure what didn't happen? Friends who didn't die because of something you did, wars that didn't start, cities that never burned. That has to count for something, doesn't it?" "You can't know what would have happened," Winter said. "Maybe everyone would have been better off." "It's possible," Abraham said placidly. "But you can't know that for certain, either. Out of all the possible worlds, we can't know if this is the best, the worst, or somewhere in between. But it's one we've got.
Django Wexler (The Infernal Battalion (The Shadow Campaigns, #5))
You're a cat," she said automatically. "Your powers of perception are astounding," the cat drawled. "Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half." "And you can talk," Alice said, working her way through the situation. "Better and better! With brains like that, I can see how you monkeys took over the world.
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
Here and there a catcall followed her, but she was used to that. Barely one in a hundred University students was female, and while the ratio was somewhat redressed by visitors who didn’t actually attend the school, Old Street still felt like the eye of a raging storm of indiscriminate masculine humors. When she first came here, Raesinia had taken such things personally, but she’d since come to understand they were more of an automatic reaction, like dogs barking at one another when they meet in the park.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
Why do you continue your... charade? Your current position would seem to be a good one for revealing the truth'. 'A few people know, sir. Bobby, Jane, some of the Leatherbacks. For the rest... it just seems easier to keep things as they are.' Winter thought of Novus and his tirade. 'It would be one thing if I had just joined up, but it's been so long. People might be upset that they'd been fooled. And...' Janus raised an eyebrow. Winter hesitated. 'It's all right for the Girl's Own,' she said. 'They joined up because Vordan needs them, and when the war's over they'll go home. I... I haven't anywhere to go.' She tugged the collar of her uniform. 'This is who I am now, for better or worse. This is my home. After the war, maybe it will be all right for a woman to keep this on, but... maybe not.' Winter found her throat getting thick. She'd never put it that way before, never even thought it so bluntly. This is my home.
Django Wexler (The Price of Valour (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
It’s Christabel,” Chris said finally. “After my mother.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
But since the Obsidian Order—perennial of cheap dramas and bogeymen of children’s stories—had
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
The Church of the time called it ‘Infernivore,’ because to them it was a demon that fed on other demons.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
From above, they would have looked like a chain of four diamonds strung out along the road, points aligned with one another so that the faces of the squares could shoot without risking friendly fire.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
Django has some built-in code to issue a permanent redirect (301) whenever someone asks for a URL which is almost right, except for a missing slash.
Anonymous
Useful Commands and Concepts Running the Django dev server python3 manage.py runserver Running the functional tests python3 functional_tests.py Running the unit tests python3 manage.py test The unit-test/code cycle Run the unit tests in the terminal. Make a minimal code change in the editor. Repeat!
Anonymous
OpenStack includes a dashboard project named Horizon, which is a web interface built with the Django framework and the different OpenStack APIs from the OpenStack services.
John Belamaric (OpenStack Cloud Application Development)
It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.
Django Wexler (The Mad Apprentice (The Forbidden Library, #2))
But Marcus had refused to be persuaded. His naïveté can be sweet, when it’s not so annoying.
Django Wexler (The Price of Valor (The Shadow Campaigns, #3))
Django: “Would you buy it if I told you that it’s always darkest before the dawn? Or that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel? Course there’s always a possibility that it’s an oncoming train. But still.
Zoey Dean (The A-List (A-List, #1))
Of the two, the Almighty was a good deal less frightening. The Lord, in his infinite mercy, might forgive a soldier who strayed from the path, but the Last Duke certainly would not.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
An individual block of code takes moments to write, minutes or hours to debug, and can last forever without being touched again. It’s when you or someone else visits code written yesterday or ten years ago that having code written in a clear, consistent style becomes extremely useful. Understandable code frees mental bandwidth from having to puzzle out inconsistencies, making it easier to maintain and enhance projects of all sizes.
Daniel Roy Greenfeld
Code is read more than it is written.
Daniel Roy Greenfeld
stopped at once, swaying gently with suddenly halted momentum. All the fronds twitched and fell limp, hanging in gentle curtains like willow fronds ought to, and there was a shower of dislodged leaves and twigs. If the tree-sprite got its hand back on the tree, Alice was certain, it would all start back up again. The fall seemed to have stunned it, and she didn’t intend to give it a chance to recover. The swarmers dropped from the branches like a rain of strange-shaped fruit, bouncing and rolling across the uneven ground, then homing in on the ape-like thing. They charged beak-first, burying the points into its skin, slashing and cutting. Alice, recalling the vicious sharpness of those beaks, quailed at the sight, but there seemed to be no flesh or blood in the tree-sprite. Chunks of bark came away with dry cracks and pops. The thing started to move, freeing its hand from the broken branch and swatting feebly at its tormentors. Alice directed the swarmers to pin it to
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
through
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
Alice
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
felt like someone had pushed jagged shards of glass into her eyes and was twisting them back and forth in the sockets, sending searing tendrils
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
felt like someone had pushed jagged shards of glass into her eyes and was twisting them back and forth in the sockets, sending searing tendrils of pain all the way down her body. Her toes curled and her arms jerked, ready to claw at the offending orbs, but Geryon held her in a firm grip. Her vision had gone black, but she could hear someone screaming, a pathetic, little-girl shriek of terror and agony. It
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
biography of Django Reinhardt. There’s a lot of material about Stes.-Maries, and the caravans.
Luanne Rice (Light of the Moon)
Something about the force of his mind bent the course of everyone around him, like a mighty river carving out a valley that lesser streams couldn’t help but flow into.
Django Wexler (The Guns of Empire (The Shadow Campaigns, #4))
(In the real world, you’d want to use a custom search system of some sort. Search the Web for open-source full-text search to get an idea of the possibilities.)
Nigel George (Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS)
There’s No Such Thing as Too Much RAM
Nigel George (Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS)
forloop.counter0 is like forloop.counter, except it’s zero-indexed. Its
Nigel George (Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS)
forloop.first is a Boolean value set to True if this is the first time through the loop. This is convenient for special-casing:
Nigel George (Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS)
Django really is the “framework for perfectionists with deadlines”.
Nigel George (Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS)
If you use custom Manager objects, take note that the first Manager Django encounters (in the order in which they’re defined in the model) has a special status. Django interprets this first Manager defined in a class as the “default” Manager, and several parts of Django (though not the admin application) will use that Manager exclusively for that model.
Nigel George (Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django’s original developers, says “Code without tests is broken by design.
Nigel George (Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS)
It was apparent to Raesinia that she had walked into the middle of an argument, though one that might not have been obvious to anyone who hadn’t spent their lives at Ohnlei. It was the kind of roundabout, exquisitely polite disagreement carried on by men who are aware that their opponent could, technically, have them executed.
Django Wexler (The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2))
He leaned in and kissed her. His lips were dry, and tasted of gritty stone and dust. Alice's fingers curled so hard against the book that they ached, and after a moment or two she closed her eyes. It seemed like an age before he pulled away. Her lips tingled, as though he'd passed on an electric charge. "I'm sorry," he said, with a lopsided grin. "It's part of the spell." Alice had a single moment to be furious before the music of the Siren rose all around her, a quiescent orchestration building to an unexpected crescendo. As her mind drifted away on that exquisite, all-encompassing melody, the last thing she felt were his hands on hers, gently tugging the book from her slackening fingers.
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
Pathetic,' the Dragon rumbled. 'This is what my sister sends against me, after so many years? Children? And the little bones always stick in my teeth...
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
The world is the ocean.” Janus blinked slowly. “The surface is light and clear. Ships, birds, fish. We draw maps of the light and say, this is the world. This is all there is.” He laughed, and it turned into a cough. “Hubris. All vanity.
Django Wexler (The Guns of Empire (The Shadow Campaigns, #4))
Will is just another word for who we are,” the Eldest said. “Sometimes a choice may be so finely balanced that we waver between the alternatives. Other times, our basic nature drives us in one direction whether we like it or not.” The Eldest spread his hands. “Philosophers have debated for centuries on the question of whether this means we are not truly free. Personally, I don’t think there’s a lot of point to the argument.
Django Wexler (The Infernal Battalion (The Shadow Campaigns, #5))
Django, a web framework, is named after Django Reinhardt the jazz guitarist,
Meredith Broussard (Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World)
The book is a must-read for fans of classic historical narratives, like Django Unchained and 12 Years A Slave. Plus, readers who enjoy magical realism will have their fill of thrills with the hair-raising ghost appearances and intriguing visions. Told through multiple third-person perspectives, the book brings different strong characters and times together in a one grand, epic narrative that is perfect for a complete escape from the mundane. This remarkable story about the inhumane act of slavery will inspire readers to question the practices they view as normal but future generations might find equally deplorable. Dangerfield's Promise is so lifelike and emotional that it helped me appreciate how far humanity has come—even though there's still much room for improvement. Terrance had better make it a series because I want more!
Seattle Book Review
Not a single scene, situation, idea, or image that was in that screenplay was in my script for Django Unchained. Yet... the essence of what Floyd was trying to accomplish in that script, an epic western with a black heroic cowboy at its center, was the very heart of what I was trying to accomplish with Django Unchained. But even more influential than any one script was having a man trying to be a screenwriter living in my house. Him writing, him talking about his script, me reading it, made me consider for the first time writing movies. The reason I knew how to even format a screenplay was from reading Floyd's screenplays. It would be a long read—from that year of 1978 to me completing my first feature length screenplay -True Romance- in September 1987. But due to Floyd's inspiration I tried writing screenplays. I usually never got that far. I think thirty was by far the furthest I ever got. But I tried. And eventually succeeded.
Quentin Tarantino (Cinema Speculation)
On the third morning, I made a strong cup of espresso, tugged on some faded jeans and an old sweater and headed for the door with Django practically bouncing at my heels. I wanted to go visit Jessica Stark. The contract I’d seen in Italy still stumped me. Maybe Jessica Stark knew why Turricci was so interested in the land.
Kristi Belcamino (City of the Dead (Gia Santella #1))
Please listen to the hi-hat on the recorded version of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks.” Listen through once. Allow yourself to be trans- ported back to the time or place when you first fell deeply into that trance of sound, so wide and powerful it gave a new depth to your life, a depth you had not known to search for. Or maybe this is the first time you are hearing the song. In that case, I imagine you prefer different music altogether. Maybe you discount rock and roll as ego-driven, disconnected from that channeled light of Bach or Satie or Django or Monk. No matter. Allow the resistance to rise here as well, then wait for the moment the song breaks through, rings that same truth, that same transportive bell of beauty, that hyp notic atmosphere music offers. How beautiful to find lessons in our resistance. This may be a foundation of spiritual practice, to dive into the center of no and investigate. All those pronouncements and walls dis- solve like so much dust under the microscope of mind. The trance of song—loud, immense, gorgeous—does the same.
Clementine Moss (From Bonham to Buddha and Back: The Slow Enlightenment of the Hard Rock Drummer)
These were the sweepings of Ashe-Katarion, the poor fools who dwelt in the gutters and tenements, summoned to war by priests' promises of retribution in this world and rewards in the next.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
Behind the first wave of fresh troops came a neat figure in dress blues, eagles glittering on his shoulders. His deep grey eyes took in the scene on the quay for a few moments, and then he turned to Winter and smiled.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
The sergeant would be apoplectic if he knew she was being promoted, rather than sent on a dangerous foray into enemy territory. For a moment Winter reconsidered her objection. It would be worth it, almost, just to watch his face turn tomato red.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
If that was a prayer, of a sort, it was answered almost immediately. The Steel Ghost strode into the tent, acknowledging the nods of the men on the door and offering the very slightest inclination of his head to the Divine Hand.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))
The two-car local pulled into North Landing station, which turned out to be little more than a wooden platform,
Django Wexler (The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1))
>>> fill = {"name": "Blitz", "age": "30"} >>> g = PersonDetailsForm(fill) >>> g.is_valid() True >>> g.cleaned_data {'age': 30, 'name': 'Blitz'}
Arun Ravindran (Django Design Patterns and Best Practices: Industry-standard web development techniques and solutions using Python, 2nd Edition)
Far parte di un assalto era […] come essere parte di un organismo più grande, un essere capace di vivere o morire, resistere o fuggire per conto proprio, indipendentemente dalla volontà degli uomini che lo componevano.
Django Wexler (The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1))