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Quotes About Nickname

Ah, the ancient language of sarcasm. How it suits you." "Why thank you, petal. It is one of my many talents, and I happen to be fluent in the language." I dazzled him with my smile. "You need to give me a manly nickname." "You haven't given me any reason to give you one yet." "That's harsh.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Even the name is not his real one. His given name was Aristocles. Plato, from the Greek for "wide" or "broad," was probably a family nickname.
~ Arthur Herman
There are many ways to deal with annoying coworkers, but obviously the most effective way is to picture them as rappers. Picturing your coworkers as rappers makes you laugh and provides a helpful nickname that can be used when talking about them behind their backs.
~ Sarah Cooper
Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.
~ Ice T
I got the name from my grandma because when I was a baby, she used to call me jittery. I used to move around real fast.
~ J.I.D
My brothers nicknamed me 'Hamburgers.'
~ Mandy Rose
I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill my children, Don Franchetti'.
~ Garth Ennis
So, what do I call you? I asked. Whomp. Whomp? Your given name? It's the sound people make when I hit them in the chest.
~ Gene Doucette
I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.
~ John Wayne
My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
~ Richard Simmons
I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
~ Jimmie Johnson
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
~ William Hazlitt
That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
~ Calvin Johnson
When I had long hair, I used to tie it back, so the guys would say I would look like the 'Gypsy.' I used to hate that, but the less you like a nickname, the more it sticks.
~ Junior dos Santos
My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.
~ Tiger Woods
Apparently, I used to bite, scratch and growl at people when I was young, so my parents named me 'Tiger.'
~ Tiger Shroff
I have been given the tag of Sher Khan. So, the tiger is my spirit animal.
~ Hina Khan
Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
It's Bo Jonas. Bo is short for Beauregard. Can you spell Beauregard?" Denny frowned. "B-o-r-r ..." "It's short for Bobby," Hogg said.
~ Samuel R. Delany
She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.
~ Sara Shepard
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
~ Michael Weatherly
Olive acquired the nickname "Spantsa," which meant "rotten vagina" or "sore" vagina. 23 She may have been menstruating when she arrived, wrapped in rags, or she may have been perceived as unhygienic by comparison to the Mohaves, who bathed every day in the Colorado River, unlike whites, for whom a splash of toilet water was considered a substitute for washing. 24
~ Margot Mifflin
Tsosie alleges that the very fact that Oatman was nicknamed confirms her acceptance within the culture; if she had been marginalized within the tribe, she would never have warranted one. Along with "Aliútman," the name stuck, and Mary Ann, perhaps too young for teasing, went by her given name.
~ Margot Mifflin
como la llamábamos yo y mi mamá)
~ Mario Vargas Llosa