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  • My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager. -- Anna Kournikova
  • I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. --
  • I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun. -- Gabrielle Reece
  • I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me. -- Julie Andrews
  • All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. -- Bill Murray
  • I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. -- Andrew Greeley
  • I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes. -- Vera Wang
  • I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there. -- Martha Plimpton
  • If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!' -- Leigh Hunt
  • I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' -- Cheryl Ladd
  • I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' -- Cheryl Ladd
  • The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'. -- Idries Shah
  • The sixties were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun. -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • I'd have made a terrible nun. -- Heather Graham
  • I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums. -- Brandy Norwood
  • A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER -- Darynda Jones
  • I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness. -- Julian Clary
  • I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness -- Julian Clary
  • The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. -- William Wordsworth
  • Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. -- H. L. Mencken
  • I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid. -- Sheryl Lee
  • Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. -- John Milton
  • Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns. -- Jenny McCarthy
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  • Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school. -- Ann Hood
  • I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people. -- Karen Armstrong
  • A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. -- Maria Monk
  • People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean. -- Jemima Kirke
  • I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun. -- Moira Kelly
  • I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ. -- Mother Teresa
  • In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass. -- Bruce Springsteen
  • People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater. -- Ellen Pompeo
  • None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. -- Thurgood Marshall
  • The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. -- Victor Hugo
  • You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute. -- Paul Mooney
  • When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.' -- Olivia Hussey
  • One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. -- Dave Van Ronk
  • For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship. -- Christopher Moore
  • Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. -- Patricia Heaton
  • It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about how many children are dying of hunger in the world. -- Pope Francis
  • If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.' -- Donna Brazile
  • I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing takes up a lot of space in your head. My ideal is to go back to when I was a child. My life is quieter than it used to be. More and more I don't really want to talk to people. I'd make a good nun, actually. -- Kate Atkinson
  • Patches are a nun's jewels. -- Marie Angelique Arnauld
  • I've been a nun. A Catholic nun. -- JWoww
  • The Bagshaws? They didn't know she was a nun! -- Ally Carter
  • What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun. -- Ken Follett
  • You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right? -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • ... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else. -- Phyllis Bottome
  • I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever! -- Foxy Brown
  • Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh. -- J. D. Salinger
  • Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas. -- Sylvia Poggioli
  • Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. -- Nora Ephron
  • It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car... -- Pope Francis
  • In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist. -- Richard B. Garnett
  • It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested! -- Shane Claiborne
  • What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits. -- Walker Percy
  • A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. -- William Shakespeare
  • Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun. -- David Nicholls
  • Und der einzige logische Weg dieser Erpressung entgegen zu wirken, bestand nun mal darin, die Erpresser selbst zu erpressen. -- Emilia Polo
  • The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore. -- Ilona Andrews
  • At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that. -- Tenzin Palmo
  • Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint. -- Rachel Martin
  • I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun. -- Kristin Chenoweth
  • What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun! -- Ana Claudia Antunes
  • One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. -- Bertrand Russell
  • Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun. -- Lino Rulli
  • Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school. -- Amy Sedaris
  • If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person. -- Mother Teresa
  • A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until we are hurt -- Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo. -- Shane Claiborne
  • A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.) -- Markus Zusak
  • My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband. -- John Fugelsang
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  • Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling. -- Murasaki Shikibu
  • In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy. -- Rita Rudner
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  • I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork. -- Helene Hanff
  • I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. "What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! FRY HER!! FRY HER!" -- Dylan Moran
  • Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing. -- Guy de Maupassant
  • Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit. -- Julia Sweeney
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