Inordinate Quotations

As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

There are certain families in the world that just get an inordinate amount of tragedy. That's just what happened here.

We always expected that Beebe would reap the benefits of his many contacts with special interests in Arkansas. He's raised a lot of money but spent an inordinate amount of money doing that, so we're quite comfortable with where we are right now.

Seniors are scared to death with the inordinate amount of information, and they are intimidated by the penalty if they don't make a choice by May 15.

She's a very cerebral swimmer. She spends an inordinate amount of time studying her competition. When she gets into the pool with swimmers she hasn't competed against before, that knowledge gives her an edge.

Because of the uniqueness of the 3-3 and the inordinate amount of pressure, we didn't run some of the plays that we think we can run as base plays in our offense. It was not a lack of desire to do things. We have a strong directive from the head coach to what he wants to do and what he feels is best for the team. We're going to do that.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

He has invested an inordinate amount of his personal credibility, work and effort to get to this point,

Hundreds of community citizens will be building the facility for the city without using an inordinate amount of tax dollars. Both the tax payers and students win.

I was determined not to spend inordinate amounts of time on something I felt would fundamentally never get made.

Outages just happen periodically, but we do seem to be having an inordinate number.

We have not seen any inflation yet, but what we have heard is an inordinate number of price increase announcements in the third or fourth quarter, but they were not supposed to take effect until Jan. 1.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

We can't lose an inordinate number of people to academic and character issues.

We are spending an inordinate amount of time on special teams this year, ... We've put special teams in the middle of practice. We have an additional 10-minute period at the end of practice with an additional specialists period.

When you have an inordinate amount of rain, you don't have any choice - the water can only flow off so far. You don't have the capacity. The sewers, once they get overflowed and overwhelmed, there is nothing you can do about it except try to keep it open to the best of your ability.

The operations side of both schools have been great in seeing that there is a test of fairness in how the game is presented. Both schools have an inordinate number of things they do at their home games, things their fans expect to be executed.

We spent a lot of time on number 32 and an inordinate amount of time of getting under his chin. At times we struggle with that and that's my fault. We went over it in quizzes, scouting reports and tape, still he catches it and we're surprised. We told them not to be surprised and that he can shoot from all over the place.

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Issuers are pretty hard-nosed about fees now, ... So even if you've got a deal where you're spending an inordinate amount of time on it, you're not going to get the earnings that you got 10 years ago.

I've lost faith in the process. The inordinate number of mistakes that have occurred in this election should make everyone concerned.

Northwest employees should not pick up an inordinate amount of the fuel costs.

There's an inordinate amount of resources being directed at an industry that's pretty small. I'm afraid there's an investigation under way in search of a crime.

It's a time-consuming process. It would not be unusual to find most people do not want to do that indefinitely. It's also a process where the rewards are largely internal; school board members get an inordinate share of the blame when things don't go well and very little of the credit when things do go well.

It's not physical, where you go up there and put a shoulder in somebody and take him out. It's about the ability to bear down and pull out quality golf shots on your own, and put an inordinate amount of pressure on you're opponent. That's the only thing you can do in our sport.

That process could replace an inordinate amount of paper that is generated right now on certification and accreditation.

Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.

The fact that we were only down 20 points after the inordinate gain yesterday was pretty impressive.

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

I get an inordinate amount of, diplomatically, let's say odd, mail and scripts and treatments and story ideas and theories and theorems.

Because of inordinate bargaining power, giant health plans have introduced an all-or-nothing mentality, which is unfair to physicians,

I don't think this is an inordinate amount of time for the jury to be out. Even in a routine felony case, the jury might be out four or five days, and this is anything but a routine case.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young