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Quotes About Nickname

Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!
~ Phyllis Diller
I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'
~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.
~ Snoop Dogg
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
~ T.I.
I love my name. I didn't used to when I was a kid. People called me Lucky Charms, after the breakfast cereal.
~ Lucky Blue Smith
My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard.
~ Mustard
My black cat was named Blackie.
~ Martha Grimes
The media named me Zeenie Babs, long long ago. I was even called Babushka.
~ Zeenat Aman
I was named Hardwell by my dad when I was 12 and the name just stuck.
~ Hardwell
Her body had been asleep but now it was wide awake and very aware of every inch of the Iceman. She'd already nicknamed him and thought of him as 'her' Iceman, even if it was just in her fantasies.
~ Christine Feehan
was drafted as a shortstop right out of high school by the Giants and sent to their double-A team in Richmond, Virginia, the Flying Squirrels, which is where I got my nickname—the squirrel—
~ Christopher Moore
Minty? Your name is Minty Fresh?
~ Christopher Moore
Virginia sent the possibly rather unusual message 'She is an angel' and signed it by the nickname we always gave her – 'Goat'. This arrived 'She is an aged Goat' and soon after George returned crestfallen and miserable and retired to bed, suffering it was said from shock.
~ Vanessa Bell
In the neighborhood she was called the Lark. People like figurative names and were happy to give a nickname to this child, no larger than a bird, trembling, frightened, and shivering, first to wake every morning in the house and the village, always in the street or in the fields before dawn. Except that the poor lark never sang.
~ Victor Hugo
It had something to do with my military training at Sheppard's Air Force Academy. I told him some things that happened while I was there, and the next thing I knew, he was calling me Sheppard.
~ L. Wilder
Pavo Real was the nickname Señor Dorantes had given to Señor Narváez, because the governor took as careful care of his appearance as a peacock. But my master had no nickname for me. A nickname is something you use to tease someone, whether out of spite or out of affection, whereas all the things he called me were said without a hint of humor or irony; El Moro, El Negro, El Arabe. On most days, he did not even call me anything. He did not need to - I was always right behind him.
~ Laila Lalami
With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.
~ Cassandra Clare
Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.
~ Cassandra Clare
Magnus Bane. The Ultimate Traitor. Not my favorite nickname. I prefer, "Our Lord and Master" or maybe "Unambiguously the Hottest.
~ Cassandra Clare
I think I like 'mundane' better than 'bloodsucker,'" Simon muttered. "With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname." -Simon and Clary, pg.234-
~ Cassandra Clare
My name is Wilhelmina," she said, "but call me Willie. I like it much better. I hate the name Wilhelmina.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Don was called Don Thumb throughout school. Maybe that was why Don was such a touchy son of a bitch.
~ Cathleen Schine
I know that I was christened Clementine, and so it would make sense if people called me Clem, or even, come to think of it, Clementine, since that's my name: but they don't. People call me Tish.
~ James Baldwin
When I go to China, people call me 'Uncle Mo' because they refer me as Yao Ming's uncle. I'm pleased to be his uncle as long as he listens to me!
~ Dikembe Mutombo