There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.
The Vision: [wields Mjolnir] Balance is amazing! Thor: The key is that it's not too heavy. Gives the swing more power.
Thor: If you believe in peace, then let us keep it. Ultron: I think you're confusing 'peace' with 'quiet'.
Thor: [Regarding creating Vision] Stark is right. Bruce Banner: Ooh, it's definitely the end times.
[Stark suits up to chase Thor and Loki] Steve Rogers: Stark, we need a plan of attack! Tony Stark: I have a plan: attack!
Tony Stark: What else you got? Clint Barton: Well, Thor's taking on a squadron down on Sixth. Tony Stark: And he didn't invite me...
British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisf...
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by com...
I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish.
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships ha...
Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.
Bruce Banner: Would you like to come to the party? Dr. Helen Cho: My appointments are too hectic, unfortunately. [pause] Dr. Helen Cho: Is Thor going to be there?
Thor: No one has to break anything. Ultron, Tony Stark: Clearly you've never made an omelet. Tony Stark: He beat me by one second.
Tony Stark: Alright then,so if I lift it, I then rule all Asgard? Thor: Yes, of course. Tony Stark: I will be re-instituting Prima Noctae.
Thor: I thought humans were more evolved than this. Nick Fury: Excuse me, did WE come to YOUR planet and blow stuff up?
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold ...
Iron Man: [as the fight begins] Call it, Captain! Captain America: Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal, our priority's containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the p...
Thor once took an IQ test, and he was scoring so high that the referees took away his ability to shoot three pointers.
