Top 100 Mcauliffe Quotes
#1. Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?"
"It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.
John Green
#2. I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
Callan McAuliffe
#3. I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
Callan McAuliffe
#4. The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
Callan McAuliffe
#6. I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.
Christa McAuliffe
#9. I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.
Callan McAuliffe
#10. People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.
Terry McAuliffe
#11. People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.
Terry McAuliffe
#12. I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
Terry McAuliffe
#13. I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
Callan McAuliffe
#14. 'I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.
Callan McAuliffe
#15. I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
Callan McAuliffe
#17. I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.
Callan McAuliffe
#18. I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
Callan McAuliffe
#19. We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!
Christa McAuliffe
#20. I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor ... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
Callan McAuliffe
#21. I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.
Terry McAuliffe
#23. The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.
Christa McAuliffe
#25. I enjoy making money and I enjoy the work [acting]. I'm really into it and it's really fun. As long as it goes for, I'm happy to keep going with it. It's a good ride so far, and I hope the wheels stay on.
Callan McAuliffe
#26. I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.
Terry McAuliffe
#27. Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.
Terry McAuliffe
#29. Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Terry McAuliffe
#30. NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
Christa McAuliffe
#31. I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.
Callan McAuliffe
#32. I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.
Christa McAuliffe
#33. A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
Callan McAuliffe
#34. I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
Callan McAuliffe
#35. I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time.
Terry McAuliffe
#36. One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!
Terry McAuliffe
#37. When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
Christa McAuliffe
#38. Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.
Christa McAuliffe
#39. I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.
Terry McAuliffe
#40. I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
Terry McAuliffe
#41. Let me tell you, it's a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.
Terry McAuliffe
#42. 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.
Christa McAuliffe
#43. There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.
Terry McAuliffe
#44. You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!
Christa McAuliffe
#45. Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.
Christa McAuliffe
#49. Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.
Christa McAuliffe
#52. I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
Callan McAuliffe
#53. I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.
Christa McAuliffe
#54. I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
Callan McAuliffe
#55. It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
Christa McAuliffe
#56. 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.
Christa McAuliffe
#57. I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.
Christa McAuliffe
#58. I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
Christa McAuliffe
#59. I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.
Terry McAuliffe
#62. I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small ... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.
Terry McAuliffe
#63. Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.
Terry McAuliffe
#64. You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
Callan McAuliffe
#65. The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Christa McAuliffe
#66. I've known Hillary, and her husband Bill, for more than half of my life. I remember her playing mermaid in the pool with our youngest daughter Sally for hours on family vacations.
Terry McAuliffe
#67. If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.
Christa McAuliffe
#68. There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent.
Callan McAuliffe
#69. My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
Christa McAuliffe
#72. I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
Callan McAuliffe
#73. I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing ... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
Callan McAuliffe
#74. It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.
Terry McAuliffe
#77. The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock."
Callan McAuliffe
#78. What the Internet was for the 1990s, green jobs are for the 2000s.
Terry McAuliffe
#79. If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
Christa McAuliffe
#80. I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.
Terry McAuliffe
#82. I want a president who will build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. A president who tackles global warming head-on and stands up for common sense solutions that keep guns away from dangerous people.
Terry McAuliffe
#83. 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.
Christa McAuliffe
#84. As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.
Terry McAuliffe
#85. I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.
Terry McAuliffe
#86. I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
Callan McAuliffe
#87. I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.
Terry McAuliffe
#88. I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
Christa McAuliffe
#89. I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.
Callan McAuliffe
#92. I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
Callan McAuliffe
#93. I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.
Terry McAuliffe
#95. Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.
Callan McAuliffe
#96. Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.
Callan McAuliffe
#97. I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
Callan McAuliffe
#98. I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.
Callan McAuliffe
#100. I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Callan McAuliffe
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