Christa McAuliffe

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.

I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.