Fever Pitch Quotes:

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

- Jimmy Fallon

source: Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 4, 2005.

topic: Reading, Fever, Scripts, Fever Pitch

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

- Bela Lugosi

topic: Vampire, Roles, Fever, Fever Pitch

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Football, Falling In Love, Pain, Disruption, Fever Pitch

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

- Nick Hornby

source: "Fever Pitch". Book by Nick Hornby, 1992.

topic: Average, Moron, Fever Pitch

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Football, Disappointment, Matter, Fever Pitch, Football Fan

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

- Julius Caesar

source: "We're not all citizens of the US yet". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

topic: Hate, War, Blood, Blinded, Julius

The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are at such a fever pitch among leftists and homosexual activists, and they need to be stopped before they get carried away in their zeal and do bodily harm to someone. Once again we must remind them our Constitution says, 'freedom of religion' and not 'freedom from religion.'

- E.W. Jackson

topic: Christian, Class, Needs, Fever Pitch

My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and vertigo spun the room, burning tracings of desire to settle deep and low in me. I exhaled into the promise of more to come, calling it to me. I breathed it in like smoke, the rising passion starting a feeling of abandonment inside. I didn’t care anymore if it was right or wrong. It just was.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Passion, Blood, Rose, Spun, Fever Pitch

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way.

- Warren Leight

topic: Self, Locks, Fever, Fever Pitch

In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.

- Tom Shales

topic: Fun, Agonizing, May, Fever Pitch, Numbing

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

- Neal Shusterman

source: Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

topic: Jobs, Cheer, Kids, Fever Pitch