Troy Aikman

It is relatively easy... to determine whether or not a blow to a quarterback was deemed excessive or incidental. So I'm discouraged that there have been a number of games that are influenced - not that the outcomes are in question - but a number of games influenced based on the protection of the quarterback.

American Athlete

Steve Erickson

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

American Novelist

Vermin Supreme

I think the important thing to understand about the free pony program is, of course, it is an absolutely free pony program, uh, there may be some incidental costs involved with pony social security or universal pony health care or the haystamp program so ponies won't starve in the streets.

American Artist

Shaun Tan

The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

Australian Artist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

David Bowie

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

English Musician

Alex Guarnaschelli

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.

American Chef

Rutger Bregman

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.

Dutch Historian

Peace Pilgrim

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

American Activist

M. J. Rose

Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

American Author

Occurs by chance and isn't planned within the main activity.

Unexpected Result

Not the main focus, but related to the main event or activity.

Not Central

Not intentionally included or planned; happens by the side.

Unintended Occurrence

A small detail or event not as important as the main purpose.

Minor Aspect

Might be potential additional factors or minor costs to consider.

Extra Considerations

In law, relates to secondary matters, not the main legal issue.

Legal Context

In law, something not directly caused by an action, but related.

Additional Consequence

 which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with. The problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school. Everybody's wearing jeans, everybody's the same. And yet, they're not. So there's a spirit of equality combined with deep inequality,

A kinder, gentler...

 through three dimensions catching insects must be pretty similar to the world model that any flying bird -- a day-flying bird like a swallow -- needs to perform the same kind of tasks. The fact that the bat uses echoes in pitch darkness to input the current variables to its model, while the swallow uses light, is incidental.

Why the universe seems...

 And hundreds of thousands of children, incidentally, are subjected to this every year. The locations of these enlightened districts, I think, will fail to surprise you. We're not talking about Connecticut. And the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious. The creator of the universe himself

Science can answer moral...

 we won't be able to understand the very beginning of our universe because when our universe was itself the size of an atom, quantum effects could shake everything. And so we need a theory that unifies the very large and the very small, which we don't yet have. One idea, incidentally --

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 shared a utilitarian purpose with other cultures around the world, some of whose languages incidentally have no word for art. So how do we define what we call art? Generally speaking, what we're talking about here is work that visually communicates meaning beyond language,

A brief history of...

 Conversely, a fish rapidly leaving a location can provide an early warning that a threat is approaching. By simply trying to stay alive, these reef fish can incidentally help their neighbors survive— and more of these fish means less seaweed.

The big-beaked,...

 their heart rates, their blood pressure, basically everything apart from whether or not the wife was actually always right, which incidentally she totally is. But what Gottman and his team found was that one of the most important predictors

The mathematics of love...

 above. Now, he can see into closed rooms. He can see into his flat fellows. This unprecedented three-dimensional view of his two-dimensional universe is devastating. Traveling to another dimension provides as an incidental

Magic Without Lies PIPE...

 They're usually filled with funny types, or archetypes. The know-it-all, the loveable loser, the bad boss, the neurotic, the airhead. Incidentally, these are all stock characters found in Commedia Dell'Arte,

How to make your writing...

 used to be thought of as souls rather than the body was incidental and the soul was all that mattered there wasn't a soul in sight someone might say of an empty lifeless Street and all souls were lost at sea