In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?
A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.
It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.
We can't afford to let high performing talent just walk away from our companies without providing an opportunity to work through family needs.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.
If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.
There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.
