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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for. -- Lou Holtz
When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again. -- Lou Holtz
You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. -- Lou Holtz
Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California. -- Lou Holtz
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. -- Tyra Banks
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. -- Lou Holtz
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. -- Phil Donahue
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. -- Ed Koch
I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss. -- Rutger Hauer
If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there. -- Lou Holtz
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy. -- Anne-Marie Duff
The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage. -- Lou Holtz
At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage. -- Lou Holtz
There is Nothing Like a Dame. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense. -- Bryan Fischer
Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame. -- John Grant
And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna. -- Miranda Richardson
Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me. -- Countee Cullen
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). -- Connie Willis
I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame. -- Dan Devine
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice. -- Dick Cavett
One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. -- Mason Cooley
I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience. -- Jim Gaffigan
Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame. -- Ara Parseghian
You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. -- Lou Holtz
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Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. -- Thomas Otway
I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection. -- John Grant
Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame. -- Beano Cook
My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg. -- Samantha Bond
I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't. -- Charlotte Rampling
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! -- John Keats
I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology. -- William Mapother
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. -- Dan Devine
To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee? -- Victor Hugo
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. -- Alan Cumming
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame. -- Stanley Hauerwas
God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason. -- Justin Tuck
I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future. -- Lou Holtz
Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state! -- Bear Bryant
I've followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie. -- Lou Holtz
I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character. -- Andy Serkis
I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian. -- Kevin A. Ford
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. -- Dave Brubeck
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble. -- John Lahr
I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do. -- Kyle Brindza
I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part! -- Kelly Brook
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend. -- Justin Tuck
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. -- Richard Dawkins
As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say. -- Tom Felton
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club. -- Mario Cuomo
I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris. -- Jessye Norman
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others. -- Barry Humphries
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that. -- Catherine Hicks
I didn't really get into underground comics, though I've liked some of what I've seen. Dame Darcy was very impressive to meet, really talented. In general, I've always been more interested in searching out music, so I think I miss out on a lot of underground art. -- Neil Farber
I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments. -- Charles Dance
The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game. -- Knute Rockne
Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
I am a classy dame. -- Evangeline Lilly
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. -- Bette Davis
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. -- Mae West
You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady. -- Frank Sinatra
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do. -- Elaine Stritch
One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so. -- Charlie Pierce
I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step. -- Philippe Petit
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I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together. -- Rudolf Nureyev
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. -- Bayard Taylor
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born. -- Jamais Cascio
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? -- Rush Limbaugh
There is nothin' like a dame. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love. -- Colley Cibber
I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille. -- Jessica Walter
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame -- Ethel Merman
What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain? -- J-Ro
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. -- Ethel Merman
You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle. -- Daniel Mainwaring
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings. -- Charles Robert Maturin
This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me. -- David O. Selznick
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I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford. -- Sue Townsend
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves. -- Philip Larkin
As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable. -- Jeanne Moreau
We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage. -- Rachel Tucker
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips. -- Horace
She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take. -- Christine E. Schulze
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch. -- William Blake

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