Christa McAuliffe Quotes

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.

Christa McAuliffe

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• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Amount
  • Scholar
  • Nihilism

• I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Loved

• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Wait

• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Great
  • Book
  • Stories

• People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Play
  • Difficult
  • Losing

• I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Game
  • Idea
  • Writer

• Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Help
  • Strong

• It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Sometimes

• Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Great
  • Animals
  • Biology

• One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Voice
  • Doing
  • Start

• I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • True
  • Football

• It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • You
  • Rhythm
  • Slump

• Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Art
  • She

• I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I begin again, Dr.Y,this neverland journal,full of my own sense of filth.Why else keep a journal, if notto examine your own filth?

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Why

• We are still looking for opportunities in plantation, in palm oil. When it is bad, you want to buy because, in the long term, I am confident that plantation is a good bet. To me, it is always in demand; there is no substitute yet for palm oil.

  

  Edwin Soeryadjaya
  • Good
  • Long
  • Bad

• It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.

  

  Christa McAuliffe