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Quotes About Incidental

I'm interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.
~ Charlie Pierce
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.
~ Sax Rohmer
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
~ Lydia M. Child
The sovereign Creator God is able to bring about his purposes as easily through insignificant persons and incidental events as he is through massive use of natural forces.
~ Albert H. Baylis
Acting happened to me incidentally, I never planned.
~ Shefali Shah
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.
~ Simon Sinek
education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
~ Kingsley Amis
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
~ H. G. Wells
The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced recognition that included a measure of protection, but they contributed little to defining its national status.
~ Don E. Fehrenbacher
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
~ Nachman of Breslov
So much human cruelty is simply incidental is simply brainless. Simply no common sense. You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.
~ Anne Carson
Every film that I make is an accident.
~ Vetrimaaran
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.
~ Edward Abbey
They've also sent some incidental things—jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.
~ Frank Herbert
What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.
~ Luke Davies
ADVENTITIOUS  (ADVENTI'TIOUS)   adj.[adventitius, Lat.]That which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent.
~ Samuel Johnson
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. As
~ Sax Rohmer
Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
~ Anna Quindlen
Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [...] because change is primarily a 'passing away.' So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into being and existing.
~ Aristotle
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Aristotle said. "We should regard women's nature as suffering from natural defectiveness." And Saint Thomas in his turn decreed that woman was an "incomplete man," an "incidental" being.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.
~ Rutger Bregman