Uncontemplated Quotes & Sayings

Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it is not of the slightest use to them in the struggle for existence. Moreover, they and their organs of hearing were much older than man and his music. Their power of appreciating music is therefore an uncontemplated side-faculty of a hearing apparatus which has become on other grounds what we find it to be. So it is, I believe, with man. He has not acquired his musical hearing as such, but has received a highly developed organ of hearing by a process of selection, because it was necessary to him in the selective process ; and this organ of hearing happens also to be adapted to listening to music. — August Weismann

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you. — Rick Remender

Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route. — Dennis E. Adonis

When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me. — Sadie Jones

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy. — Mary Anne Radmacher

We're all someone's monster. — Leigh Bardugo