Quotes About Nickname

He used to call her Poppens out of fun.

We're going to call him Mr. Adorable. No, we're going to call him Snuggs

You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max.

But I was definitely starting to see where his nickname came from.

His name was Butchie Dykes.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.

My stepfather's nickname for me was Squarehead.

Johnny Wrestling, to me, isn't just a cool nickname or a fun thing for the crowd to chant. To me, it's a state of mind, and it's just who I am. I first stepped foot in a wrestling ring when I was 8 years old.

It would take me thirty years to learn the psychological advantages of letting people use a mildly embarrassing nickname. It lets them think they own a piece of you, and that binds them to you.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

I gave myself the nickname 'Bipolar Rock N' Roller' way back in the 1990s, when - as much as we don't talk about mental health now - back then it was almost nonexistent. And if it was broached, it was done in a very pejorative way.

My mom used to call me Bliv - as in oblivious.

I'm done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either.

That was great. They're calling him Buttwatcher now. Just "Watcher" in front of the teachers, but everybody knows what he's watching.

the Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs's dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This caused many component failures and earned the Macintosh the nickname "the beige toaster," which did not enhance its popularity.

For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured.

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

That nickname was given to me by Steve Nash when I came to the league and nobody could say my last name, Dragic. Everybody was saying Dragika - nobody could say it. So he said, 'From now on you're The Dragon. It's much easier.' The funny thing is he didn't know the capital city of Slovenia is Ljubljana and the logo is the dragon.

I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

He's known as Sting. I have my own personal name for him, but that shall remain a personal name.

News accounts of the riot would give rise to a story that still lives, that the "Fighting Irish" nickname was forever set by the clash of Notre Dame against the Ku Klux Klan on May 17, 1924.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.