A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Anita Elberse
Anita Elberse

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

Anita Sarkeesian
Anita Sarkeesian

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.

Auguste Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier

Novelty is the universal cry - novelty by hook or by crook! It is an exceedingly common mania among people of inordinate wealth to exact incessantly new or so-called new dishes.

Carter Burwell
Carter Burwell

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-Rae Lee

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.

Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

George Monbiot
George Monbiot

Surplus money allows some people to exercise inordinate power over others: in the workplace; in politics; and above all in the capture, use and destruction of the planet's natural wealth.