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Quotes About Nickname

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.
~ Raquel Welch
No one can pronounce my name. My name is 'The Black Guy From 40-Year-Old Virgin'.
~ Romany Malco
I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.
~ Joe Gold
My real name is Davenie Johanna Heatherton, but my older brother, Dick, couldn't pronounce Johanna when he was a boy. So he called me 'Joey.'
~ Joey Heatherton
and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I used to get called 'Ferrari' when I was a kid because I was always running everywhere.
~ Mo Farah
It's Fifty, not Fiddy.
~ Curtis Jackson
One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
~ Cy Young
I've always been called 'Suki,' but my actual first name is Alice.
~ Suki Waterhouse
I had very big lips growing up, so my brother started to call me Scooter Fish because he decided a scooter fish has big lips.
~ Scooter Braun
My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When Shaq gave me the nickname, it wasn't no Joe-Bob giving you a nickname. This is Shaq. It was like, whoa.
~ Paul Pierce
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
~ Oliver Herford
It's easy to remember. That's part of the reason why it's never surprised me or bothered me that somebody doesn't know my real name. What's easier to remember: Danielle Fishel or Topanga? Topanga sticks with you.
~ Danielle Fishel
I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
~ John Lee Hooker
The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
~ Bruce Springsteen
'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.
~ John Schneider
But he became known as a bad luck ship, mockingly called the Pariah.
~ Robin Hobb
a face so broad and ruddy that he was dubbed "Bacon Face.
~ Ron Chernow
His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course.
~ Rudyard Kipling
nicknamed Eyeslice and Hairoil;
~ Salman Rushdie
the Brat—Victoria to her second-grade teacher, Vicki to her mother, but the Brat to her father and in her heart—was
~ Joe Hill
My sister called me "Buzzard" when I was a baby - she couldn't say "Brother" so I've been Buzz my whole life.
~ Buzz Aldrin