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Quotes About Moniker

For the most part I'd say the Steelers called me Duck more than Devlin.
~ Devlin Hodges
I've always called myself 'Mr. Dull Guy.'
~ Ken Berry
I wasn't always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil - not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn't call me Virgil.
~ Dusty Rhodes
People have called me Ha Ha since I was in elementary school, so that's just what it's been.
~ Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
~ Dakota Fanning
I have a friend named Jay. We call him J for short.
~ Unknown
Loads of people call me Bax. In my family I'm often called Hel, which isn't as nice.
~ Helen Baxendale
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
~ Elvis Costello
What? What's your issue now?' I asked, annoyed. 'Jus' wonderin' what's it like for Droopy. This place is intense and he's jus' a lil' guy, you know?' Of all the bangers in the world, I had to get Mr. Sensitive. Droopy, I assumed, was Hector Amaya's gang moniker. I wondered why they were always so unflattering. Me, I would've at least picked something like Foxy or Jet. Which, I supposed, explained in part why I wasn't gang material.
~ Marcia Clark
Yo. Salt-and-Pepper. The name is Go-Go or Mr Go-Go, okay?
~ Matthew Reilly
And are you unquestionably certain your haecceity is defined by your moniker?
~ Michael Reaves
Her real name will come later, but her current code name is Petunia.
~ Mike Brown
My name is Ty. Short for Wyatt. Wyatt Svenson. People just always call me Ty.
~ Molly O'Keefe
First name; mister. Middle name; dot. Last name; TEE.
~ Mr. T
Philip, whom men nicknamed 'Beautiful'
~ Unknown
The subcomponents were at first called different things, but eventually the physics community settled on the term 'quarks' chosen by Murray Gell-Mann for the way it sounded to him. He spotted the word in a passage from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, "Three quarks for Muster Mark's". As there are three quarks each in protons and neutrons (and in all particles in the category called baryons), the moniker seemed appropriate.
~ Unknown