If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
I woke up (Sunday) at 5 a.m. with a fever and nausea. Fortunately, it was only a 12- or 24-hour bug, and it got out of my system just in time. I woke up (Monday) still feeling a little weak but not nauseous, so I was pretty happy.
I was very pleased, very proud. We played every possession. We played at fever pitch and that's what put the game away early.
I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there.
The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of Congress are hearing from their constituents.
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
There is a lot of froth and fever surrounding the debuts of new stocks. But that is not the data on which investors should determine their long-run strategies.