Paul Auster

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.

American Author

John Cusack

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

American Actor

Sam Walton

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

American Businessman

B. B. King

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

American Musician

Georg Buchner

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

German Dramatist

Damien Chazelle

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

American Director

William Penn

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

English Leader

Jane Goldman

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

English Writer

Jessica Valenti

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

American Writer

Julia Roberts

American Actress

Use 'fever' to describe an elevated body temperature caused by illness, not just feeling warm.

Medical Condition

'Running a fever' means currently having a high temperature, while 'breaking a fever' means the fever is subsiding.

Common Expressions

Adjectives like 'high', 'low', 'spiking' describe fever's intensity and can signal the seriousness of illness.

Severity Indicator

Used metaphorically, 'fever' expresses heightened emotion or excitement, not actual sickness.

Metaphorical Use

Pair 'fever' with words like 'pitch', 'anticipation', or 'excitement' to depict non-literal, intense energy.

Figurative Collocations

'Fever' in disease names indicates the illness has a fever as a symptom, like in 'scarlet fever'.

Disease Names

Some fevers, like 'yellow fever', are specific diseases and often have vaccinations available.

Specific Illnesses

 Turns out we don't really like that too much. In fact, humans hate mosquitos so much that we spend billions of dollars worldwide to keep them away from us -- from citronella candles to bug sprays to heavy-duty agricultural pesticides. But it's not just that mosquitos are annoying, they're also deadly. Mosquitos can transmit everything from malaria to yellow fever

The loathsome, lethal...

 the eight-year-old son of his gardener. After a few days of fever and discomfort, the boy seemed to recover. Two months later, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion. No disease developed, and Jenner concluded that protection was complete. His plan had worked.

How we conquered the...

 Having observed abdominal inflammation in patients who go on to develop the fever, he claims this inflammation is the cause of childbed fever. Much of the medical establishment supports his theory. Oh, come on! They really leave me no choice but to teach them some skepticism.

Can you outsmart the...

 They said I was a cowboy for suggesting that. And since her fever and low blood pressure had not responded to any other therapy, her doctor quickly asked permission to the institutional review board, her parents, and everybody, of course, said yes. And they tried it,

A "living drug" that...

 the disease caused by the Ebola virus is a severe type of hemorrhagic fever. It begins by attacking the immune system's cells and neutralizing its responses, allowing the virus to proliferate. Starting anywhere from two to twenty days after contraction,

What we know (and don't...

 but I'd never really been sick in my life, and I knew that usually, if you have a virus, you stay home and you make some chicken soup, and in a few days, everything will be fine. But this time it wasn't fine. After the fever broke,

What happens when you...

 primarily through close, face to face contact, causing fever, aches and rashes. It killed up to 30% of its victims and often left survivors with life-long disfiguring scars. The devastating impact of smallpox was so great

Learning from smallpox:...

 an erotic ritual okay now here's the big moment that's the male inserting sperm into the female using its fever called a help as you can see part of the ritual is leaving part of himself inside the

Deadly Mates: Black...

 dengue fever for three days in a jungle alone and a week later while drug trafficker even my camp at night with automatic gun so Thailand came like as a relief crew really because it's helped

A journey around the...

 the girls going with young hot-blooded Liam displaying the enclosure reaches fever pitch head bobbing bellowing and scent-marking