Nothing is incidental.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

— Stephen Metcalf

“For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

— Lydia M. Child

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

— Anonymous

“Leave your incidental Dick.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Justice is incidental to law and order.

— J. Edgar Hoover

Action merely the incidental product of thought

— Anonymous

“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“You can change your life or not change it. It really doesn’t matter in the end. Life as humans live it is too fleeting,…

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Incidental consequences are often unpleasant; the kinds of reactions you can expect when you say something asinine or unpopular in public.

— Norah Vincent

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

— Jamie Kennedy

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

— Tim Winton

“Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in…

— Laura Riding