quotes about Nicknames
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Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
-- Alan Alda -
Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?" "I didn't know you were looking." Well, I've given the matter some serious thought." "And what have you come up with?" "Cookie," I anounced proudly. Xavier scrunched up his face. "No way." "You don't like it? What about Bumblebee?" "Worse." "Snookie-Wookie?" "Do you have any cyanide?" "Well, some of us are just a bit hard to please.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
-- Carrot Top -
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I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
-- Ellen Page -
Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.
-- Frank Zane -
Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.
-- Gena Showalter -
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After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
-- Jay London -
If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.
-- Jennifer Lee -
I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.
-- Jessica Sanchez -
I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
-- Jimmie Johnson -
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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 -
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."
-- John Richard Green -
The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."
-- Katherine Amelia Towle -
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
-- Lucy HawkingSource : "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.
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I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
-- Natalia Vodianova -
My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.
-- Nicole AppletonSource : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.
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Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and if everybody who ever asked me that question buys the book, I'll be a millionaire.
-- Pumpsie Green -
I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
-- Rashida Jones -
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You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
-- Richard Roeper -
She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.
-- Sara Shepard -
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.
-- Satchel Paige -
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Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.
-- Snoop Dogg -
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
-- Summer Altice -
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
-- Taye DiggsSource : filmcritic.com Interview, www.imdb.com.
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[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.
-- Ted Nugent -
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
-- Thomas Chandler HaliburtonSource : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.51
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Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.
-- Tinie Tempah -
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At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl.
-- Diana DeGarmo -
Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him.
-- Frank Caliendo -
When I was covering baseball the Reds had a first baseman, Sean Casey. His nickname was "The Mayor" because he knew and connected with absolutely everyone. Incredibly lovely ... even invited Red writers to his wedding. And that never happens.
-- Jeff PearlmanSource : Source: lombardiave.com
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My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
-- Samantha Bond -
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Playing halfback in high school and college was marvelous! It taught me how to get to the end zone. I wanted to make my nickname "End Zone Tommy!"
-- Tommy McDonald -
My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.
-- Patrick Schwarzenegger -
Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!
-- Red Buttons