Quotes About Nickname

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

I got the name in primary school because my hair was shaggy. And I didn't like it; I thought it was derogatory.

When I was around 13 or 14, and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name Apollo on it. And I'd walk around with it. People would say, 'Hey, there's that Apollo kid.' That's where the name generated from.

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.'

Chantelle Brown-Young is my real name. Winnie is my nickname that I was given as a teenager, and it has stuck with me. I've combined my real name and my nick name to create 'Chantelle Winnie.' My alter ego, where I seek confidence when I model, is 'Winnie Harlow.'

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

I'm one of 10 children, and all my brothers call me Jim. And all my sisters... well, they call me something even more affectionate. My mother calls me James, and I do what my mother tells me.

Who are you?' 'They call me Good-Looking Joe,' the stranger replied. 'You gave yourself that name, right?' Joe laughed. 'Only the Joe part.

Doesn't anyone ever call you that, among all your many nicknames?' she wondered as they walked back through to the hall. 'Call me what?' '"Lightning" Strike?

And call me Conrad!

What's his name?" "Jimmy Rat." "For real?" "That's what he goes by." "Where would I find Mr. Rat?

Oh, his speed was no shock—speed was never Alec's problem. It was his precision that astonished. Because listen: How many pitchers in any league have a fastball with its own nickname? And what kind of fastball earns the name Mad Mouse? I will tell you: the kind that twists in crackling without one notion where it's going. The kind you don't see but hear hissing to itself like the bottle rocket before the bang.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

Her nickname during her latter years editing the Chronicle had been satnav because she would happily tell anyone where to go.

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

somebody called somebody else Slotface

Marie: So why are you called Horse? Horse: Cause I'm hung like one.

So why are you called Horse?" "'Cause I'm hung like one," he replied, smirking.

You hungry?" asked Silver, who was thus nicknamed because his hair had turned old when he was but twenty-five.

so my cousin was called Shay D., which quickly became Shady." "Unusual name for a police officer," Monty said.