Fever Quotes - Page 11

• Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Sea, Sick

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.135, Faber & Faber

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• as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Physicians, Easy, Cures

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.9, FastPencil Inc

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• (Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Yellow, Sick, House

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• To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Long, Mind, Body

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

  James Wolcott

  Voice, Office, Break Out

  "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

  Paul Gauguin

  Delay, Hesitation

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Flower, Roots

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

  John Muir

  Butterfly, Perfect, Joy

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Kings, Sorry, War

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• 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, Punishment

  "The mighty Quinn" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

  Julian Fellowes

  Airports, Breakfast, Planes

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• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  Adam Garcia

  Inspirational, Dance, Laughter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.

  Steven Pressfield

  Money, Attitude, Play

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.73, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

  John Travolta

  Night, Thinking, Careers

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• Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

  Henry Ford

  Confused, Progress, Spirit

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• 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

  Eli Roth

  Moving, Perfect Guy, Cabins

  "24 Hours Of Horror With Eli Roth". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2007.

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• As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.

  Eli Roth

  Crazy, Kids, Race

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• The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

  Avicenna

  Science, Medical Knowledge, Medicine

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• The wounded surgeon plies the steel
  That questions the distempered part;
  Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
  The sharp compassion of the healer's art
  Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Compassion, Hands

  'Four Quartets' 'East Coker' (1940) pt. 4

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• War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

  Dan Simmons

  Children, Pain, War

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.116, Spectra

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• Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

  Bernard Williams

  Spring, Winter, Laziness

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• Were I
  as quiet as thunder,
  how I'd wail and whine!
  One groan of mine
  would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.
  And if
  I'd end up by roaring
  with all of its power of lungs and more -
  the comets, distressed, would wring their hands
  and from the sky's roof
  leap in a fever.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hands, Sky, Roaring

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1985). “Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе”

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• I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only You Know. Only a thorough initiate of the scene who also had some genius with language could summon the demotic yet electric voice for the job. If there is ruefulness, now, for the way he treated his body, his girlfriends, and his family, he wisely reprises in his book, in neon detail, the fever that once placed him in the same drunken boat with Iggy Pop, Rimbaud and Artaud.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Song, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• Dancing? You, Poppy?" Marianne shook her head slowly. I never thought..." Rose looked concerned. She even felt Poppy's head for fever, but Poppy shook her off. "I don't know about you, Rose, but I'm done letting creatures like Under Stone and the Corley dictate my life. I enjoy dancing, and I will blasted well dance at my wedding!" "Poppy! Language!" Poppy didn't answer; she just threw her arms around Christian and kissed him soundly.

  Jessica Day George

  Christian, Rose, Dancing

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