A Quote by Panos Cosmatos

I realized the modern equivalent of a broadsword duel would be a chainsaw battle.

Panos Cosmatos

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Battle Chainsaw Duel Equivalent I Realized Modern Realized Would Would Be

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Panos Cosmatos
Canadian - Director
Born: 1974

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.

Caroline Polachek

In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics retains abundant masculine rituals. Prime minister's question time in Britain, for instance, is a stylised duel and tournament redolent of testosterone.

Linda Colley

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

E. F. Schumacher

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

Susan Orlean

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Edmond About

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

Julia Quinn

Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.

Angela Knight

Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.

Kelley Armstrong

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

When I started Giorgio Armani in the mid-'70s, I realized that women needed a way to dress that was equivalent to that of men - something that would give them dignity, an attitude that would help them handle their work life.

Giorgio Armani

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Carl von Clausewitz

I ended up in Colorado working in wilderness fire prevention. My job was to run around with a chainsaw and cut down trees during a blaze. It was really fun. When I first got out there, that's when I realized how passable of a male I could be.