Norm MacDonald

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

Canadian Actor

James Tate

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

American Poet

Boris Johnson

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

British Politician

William Thomas

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

American Athlete

George C. Wolfe

Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

American Playwright

Charles Comiskey

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

Sarah Weinman

Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

American Journalist

George Kotsiopoulos

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

American Editor

Graham Norton

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

Irish Celebrity

Tim O'Brien

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

American Author

Use 'inconsequential' to downplay an element's importance in comparison to a larger context.

Relative Importance

'Inconsequential' implies that the subject lacks enough impact to be noteworthy or deserving attention.

Noteworthy Impact

Using 'inconsequential' can suggest a dismissive attitude towards the subject.

Emotional Tinge

'Inconsequential' often implies that an action was expected to have an effect or result, but did not.

Expectation of Effect

Reflects a contrast between the effort put in and the lack of resulting outcome.

Effort and Outcome

Shows that someone's influence or control over a situation is weak or non-existent.

Degree of Influence

 to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential. For me, that home has always been writing. So after the weird, disorienting success that I went through with "Eat, Pray, Love," I realized that all I had to do was exactly the same thing that I used to have to do all the time

Success, failure and the...

 Now, no one has to wait anymore. At this moment, when so much of how we communicate is fleeting and inconsequential, join us in creating this digital archive of conversations that are enduring and important. Help us create this gift to our children, this testament to who we are as human beings.

Dave Isay: Everyone...

 for the second time, and since I was still an authority on nothing, I thought, what if I made a multimedia presentation on a topic so niche it is actually inconsequential or actually cockamamie. So my talk had some of my four in the morning examples, but it also had examples

Rives: The Museum of...

 people in the world to call this boundary hodgson's line that's because before our team started researching the story no one knew where the line came from it's amazing that you could have such a seemingly inconsequential mistake

Unraveling a Mapmaker’s...

 And there is nothing out there of which it can truly be said, "Look, this is new." Nevertheless, at some point during the great monotony, there was an event -- inconsequential at the time, and even billions of years later,

After billions of years...

 There were no breaks for food, no water breaks, and the severe dehydration made urinating pretty much inconsequential. So pervasive was the heat and the dust that my camera became too hot to even touch and ceased working.

Lisa Kristine: Photos...

 So why care about the history of our planet when the distant past seems so inconsequential to everyday life? You see, as far as we can tell, Earth is the only planet in our solar system known to have sparked life,

This ancient rock is...

 To men, women's stories were seen as inconsequential. I started paying closer attention to women's lives in Gaza. Because of my gender, I had access to worlds where my colleagues were forbidden.

Eman Mohammed: The...

 So first of all, black women weren't allowed to work at the plant. Second of all, the court doubled down on this exclusion by making it legally inconsequential.

The urgency of...

 Or movie after movie after movie that portrays women as only love interests? These examples might seem inconsequential and harmless, but they're insidious,