Cormier Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Cormier Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your company.— Rick Cormier
I feel good because it's my first finish in UFC. Training camp was long and hard and I prepared for a long fight but I have no complaints. I'm going to stay in this cycle and be this healthy in every camp. I feel great with this nutrition and the way my body has reacted to it. I'm firing on all cylinders. I've been talking about this move down for a long time and when you do it the right way you don't feel any effects. I don't want to make this harder than it needs to be. I've got great coaches and I know I haven't peaked yet. I'm going to keep getting better and I'm taking on all comers.— Daniel Cormier
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.— Robert Cormier
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.— Robert Cormier
When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.— Daniel Cormier
If it wasn't for insomnia, I'd never get anything done.— Andrew Cormier
In order to create a new world, we must first destroy the old one.— Andrew Cormier
Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow.— Rick Cormier
There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset.— Robert Cormier
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?— Robert Cormier
A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.— Robert Cormier
No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.— Daniel Cormier
My name is one best whispered in terror in a dark corner.— Andrew Cormier
They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.— Robert Cormier
Do I dare disturb the universe?— Robert Cormier
Yes, I do, I do. I think.
Jerry suddenly understood the poster
the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.
Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.— Daniel Cormier
No one wants to sit through a drawn-out tale any more than they want a third nipple— Andrew Cormier
His leg split like a piece of lumber being hit with an awl.— Andrew Cormier
Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.— Robert Cormier
One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.— Daniel Cormier
Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in its proper orbit, nothing impossible, the entire world attainable.— Robert Cormier
When he ran, he even loved the pain, the hurt of the running, the burning in his lungs and the spasms that sometimes gripped his calves. He loved it because he knew he could endure the pain, and even go beyond it. He had never pushed himself to the limit but he felt all this reserve strength inside of him: more than strength actually - determination. And it sang in him as he ran, his heart pumping blood joyfully through his body.— Robert Cormier
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.— Robert Cormier
You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.— Daniel Cormier
Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn't grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I'm an adult".— Andrew Cormier
Eat my heart— Robert Cormier
Chew it hard
Swallow my soul, too
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.— Robert Cormier
Sometimes I wake up at night in a panic. Wondering: What will my life be like? And sometimes I even wonder: Who am I? What am I doing here, on this planet, in this city, in this house? And it gives me the shivers, makes me panic.— Robert Cormier
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.— Robert Cormier
People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.— Robert Cormier
They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.— Robert Cormier
I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.— Robert Cormier
Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them.— Rick Cormier
No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.— Daniel Cormier
All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.— Robert Cormier
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.— Robert Cormier
If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.— Andrew Cormier
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.— Robert Cormier
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.— Robert Cormier
Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there ...— Robert Cormier
It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.— Robert Cormier
I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.— Robert Cormier
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.— Robert Cormier
It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.— Robert Cormier
With timid curiosity, I asked, what do you mean the old bodies get reused?— Andrew Cormier
It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever.— Andrew Cormier
A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.— Robert Cormier
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.— Sara Zarr
I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun— Robert Cormier
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.— Robert Cormier
Now that's a true bitch, but that's Hell for you.— Andrew Cormier
My wife likes to say there are two kinds of people, those chasing pleasure and those running from pain. Maybe she's right, I don't know. What I do know is this: Pleasure helps you forget. But pain, pain forces you to hope. You tell yourself this can't last. Today could be different. Today something just might change.— Robert Cormier
Someone had bashed his head in, perhaps to put him out of his misery, but more likely to keep him from coming back as a zombie.— Andrew Cormier
Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.— Robert Cormier
Go get your bus, square boy.— Robert Cormier
I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.— Robert Cormier
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.— Robert Cormier
With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.— Daniel Cormier
He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.— Robert Cormier
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.— Robert Cormier
Happiness is a way of traveling and not a destination— Robert Cormier
I stuck one of my backpack straps into my mouth and bit down on it. I knew that no matter what I did, my attempt at playing doctor was going to f**king hurt, but I didn't feel like dying here.— Andrew Cormier
And he did see— Robert Cormier
that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.— Robert Cormier
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.— Robert Cormier
I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.— Robert Cormier
Ebola then turns the insides of its host into jelly: you begin to vomit black junk which is basically your dissolved liver and internal organs.— Andrew Cormier
I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.— Robert Cormier
I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy that I'm fighting if we both go into the sauna at the same time. When we're doing interviews I want to have quicker wit so that I can make him feel stupid. I want to drink my water faster. And then when we get in the cage I want to beat him up. I don't think people really truly understand the extent that I go to try not to use.— Daniel Cormier
If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.— Daniel Cormier
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.— Robert Cormier
Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.— Daniel Cormier
At first, many people infected with the zombie virus experienced similar symptoms to Ebola.— Andrew Cormier
Pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.— Robert Cormier
A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.— Robert Cormier
There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.— Robert Cormier
You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards.— Robert Cormier
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?— Robert Cormier
CULTIVATE THE GOOD WITHIN— William H. Cormier
You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.— Robert Cormier
Angry at his parents and all grown-ups who thought that school life was a lark, a good time, the best years of your life with a few test and quizzes thrown in to keep you on your toes. Bullshit. There was nothing good about it. Tests were daily battles in the larger war of school. School meant rules and orders and commands. To say nothing of homework.— Robert Cormier
He looks at me fondly. I know that the look doesn't have love in it. Or even lust. I still wonder about love or sex or lust. I saw lust in his eyes when he looked at that girl on the sidewalk ... I love him, anyway. I love him because he's kind to me and he doesn't want my body, doesn't want to feel me or touch me, like all the others ... and maybe after a while he might look at me with more than fondness, will kiss me sweetly, tenderly.— Robert Cormier
She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only stopped when you were dead ... Time was always moving and nothing could stay the same, everything was always changing, for better or for worse. And you had to change with time, with the seasons and the years, or you would be dead too, although your heart would continue to beat.— Robert Cormier
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.— Robert Cormier
I didn't smoke often, and had never smoked before the apocalypse, but now I had more pressing health issues to worry about.— Andrew Cormier
Love is how you treat someone.— Rick Cormier
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing— Robert Cormier
discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day
a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours
and so's publication.
At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.— Robert Cormier
With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to their cars. This is how I learned to ride a bike.— Mindy Kaling
I declare this man a saint!— Andrew Cormier
As the days went by, my frustration festered like an outhouse during a Jamaican summer.— Andrew Cormier
A: Funny about my mother. All my life, from the time I was just a little kid, I thought of her as a sad person. I mean, the way some people are tall or fat or skinny. My father always seemed the stronger one. As if he was a bright color and she was a faded color. I know it sounds crazy.— Robert Cormier
T: Not at all.
A: But later, when I learned the truth about our lives, I found she was still sad. But strong, too. Not faded at all. It wasn't sadness so much as fear
the Never Knows.
The world was left in complete devastation but I ruled most of what remained— Andrew Cormier
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.— Robert Cormier
The cheese stands alone— Robert Cormier
The cheese stands alone
Heigh-ho the merry-o
The cheese stands alone
Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell— Jodi Picoult
apart at the details. It couldn't save a single child-not the ones who'd gone to Sterling High that day,
expecting the normal; not Josie Cormier; certainly not Peter. So what was the recipe? Was it love,
mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness?
Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.— Robert Cormier
If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.— Daniel Cormier
A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.— Robert Cormier
We take the most difficult relationship of our childhood... and we MARRY it.— Rick Cormier
