Fever Quotes

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Gentleman

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Dream

• I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Baseball
  • Fever
  • Goose

• We gave the world dab fever!

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Gave
  • Fever

• Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Eternity
  • Fever

• A fever is an expression of inner rage.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Expression
  • Rage
  • Fever

• Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Revolt

• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

  

  Plutarch
  • Strong
  • Fever
  • Honors

• I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Fever
  • Little Willie John
  • Peggy Lee

• It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.

  

  Madame Roland
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Desire
  • Reason

• This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Thinking
  • Morning
  • Cabins

• Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

  

  Rider Strong
  • Stress
  • Murder
  • Investors

• An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Envious
  • Pale
  • Emulation

• The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Crime

• Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Reason
  • Enthusiasm
  • Fever

• These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Riches
  • Fever

• Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Passion
  • Found

• Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Love
  • Admiration
  • Fever

• There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Passion
  • State

• There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Long
  • Book

• Perhaps the potency of fever, of drugs, of alcohol, or of mania may open up deeps of memory, of primordial memory, that are closed to the milder magic of sleep. The subtle poison in the grape may gnaw through the walls of Time and give the memory sight of those terrible days when we wallowed — nameless shapes — in the primaeval slime.

  

  Elizabeth Bisland
  • Time
  • Magic
  • Memory

• Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Love
  • Fever
  • Measles

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