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Quotes About Appellation

nicknamed Eyeslice and Hairoil;
~ Salman Rushdie
I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.
~ Alice Hoffman
Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.
~ Imogen Poots
Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why.
~ Douglas Booth
Let's call him Reilly O'Shaunessy. Because that was his name.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
As if I was never nicknamed 'Wednesday' as in 'Adams'.
~ Sarah Vowell
Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
~ Gary Lineker
My friends call me 'George,' 'GM,' or 'Georgia.' But most people who know me from when I was little call me 'Georgia May.'
~ Georgia May Jagger
I like Quintorris. It means 'Gladiator.'
~ Julio Jones
I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.
~ Pete Postlethwaite
So, what do I call you? I asked. Whomp. Whomp? Your given name? It's the sound people make when I hit them in the chest.
~ Gene Doucette
A pen name is a nickname.
~ A.D. Posey
Who can give a man this, his own name?
~ George MacDonald
The Mouse, she was nicknamed
~ Sarah Blake
Call me Richard. That's my real name. Call me that.
~ Stephen King
Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
~ Ben Jonson
FN-2187 was simply Eight-Seven
~ Greg Rucka
everyone began to call them "sharters
~ Ernest Cline
Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia, Chateauneuf-du-Pape never developed a reputation for quality or achieved the prestige enjoyed by such regions as Burgundy and Bordeaux.
~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.
~ Michael Phelps
Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for China reverted to chugoku (Middle Kingdom), a common name from before the Meiji Restoration (1868).4
~ Stefan Tanaka
It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call myself James sometimes. I actually use my mother's name as a professional name. But if someone calls me Mr. Murphy or Mr. Gillen, I don't like that. I don't like being called 'mister,' and I don't like being called 'sir.'
~ Aidan Gillen
I love to be called Doc.
~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz