Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.
The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.
[U]sefulness is happiness, and. . . all other things are but incidental.
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it
As for the subject matter in my painting. . . . it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.
Justice is incidental to law and order.