Top 91 Quotes About Nicknames
#1. Our epoch has been give many nicknames
the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey.
Aldous Huxley
#2. You familiar with prison rules, Ali-gator?
Stupid nicknames. They were the equivalent of verbal fungus. You couldn't ever get rid of them.
Gena Showalter
#3. 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
#4. You did not just say that. I have the feeling were on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other." -Christian
"I already have a nickname for you, but I'll get n trouble if I say it in class." - Rose
Richelle Mead
#5. In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#6. You heard Prince Perfect," Mal said, and joined us at the table. Nikolai grinned. "I've had a lot of nicknames, but that one is easily the most accurate.
Leigh Bardugo
#7. About stuff. Stupid stuff. And then he asked me, "Why do Mexicans like nicknames?" "I don't know. Do we?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#8. Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames.
George Vecsey
#9. Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
Vita Sackville-West
#10. Most of us have nicknames - annoying, endearing, embarrassing.
But what about your true name?
It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.
Ever wonder why?
Your true name has the secret power to call you.
Vera Nazarian
#11. All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer
#12. And at last he began prancing up and down and rubbing his hands, and humming and murmuring, and putting his fist to his mouth blew a march on it as on a trumpet, and even uttered aloud a few encouraging words and nicknames addressed to himself, such as "bulldog" and "little cockerel.
Nikolai Gogol
#13. The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.
Richelle Mead
#14. When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.
Rooney Mara
#15. Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
Edna Ferber
#16. Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Thomas Paine
#17. I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it.
Paul Walker
#18. Theodore," [Theodore Sr] said, eschewing boyish nicknames, "you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one's body, but I know you will do it.
Edmund Morris
#19. I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.
Steve Sabol
#20. Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him.
Frank Caliendo
#23. Nicknames reveal the man; real names conceal the man.
F.W. Boreham
#24. All our names are just stupid nicknames they made up - like Alby for Albert Einstein, Newt for Isaac Newton, and me - Thomas. As in Edison.
Anonymous
#25. Calvin had a talent for inventing abusive nicknames and he styled this amorphous opposition 'Libertines', which had a conveniently scandalous resonance, while also reflecting the undoubted fact that his opponents sought a freedom for which he saw no need.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
#26. No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend.
Jonathan Maberry
#27. I'm done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either.
Shaquille O'Neal
#28. It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive sports team nicknames, we will strike out.
Adam Dodek
#29. She chokes on her drink with her laugh. "Chunk? You call your little sister Chunk?" "We all call her Chunk. She was a fat baby." She laughs. "You have nicknames for everyone," she says. "You call Sky Cheese Tits. You call Holder Hopeless. What do you call me when I'm not around?
Colleen Hoover
#30. Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
Charles Eastman
#31. 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?
Robert Galbraith
#32. A Silencer wouldn't nurse me back to health - much less give me nicknames and play snuggles in the dark.
Rick Yancey
#33. As the nicknames get shorter, people come closer.
Mita Jain
#34. People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.
Cecelia Ahern
#35. Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
Doris Lessing
#36. I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
Ellen Page
#37. You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.
Richelle Mead
#38. A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what he called himself, and no great effort was made to disentangle Christian names from surnames from nicknames.
Tim O'Brien
#39. Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.
Michael J. Massimino
#40. What the hell was up with her nicknames anyway? Sunshine. Daisy. Candy. All bright, sweet things. She should insist on being called Spider or something. Darken her image a bit.
Cherrie Lynn
#41. I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
Shaquille O'Neal
#42. 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 Diggs
#43. After they left the office, Peabody shoved her hands in her pockets. "These nicknames are pissing me off."
"But you're not I'm-Too-Good-to-Pee-Body. Harris is."
"It's my damn name. And now I have to pee. It's like my bladder has to prove something."
"Pee at the bank. Consider it a deposit.
J.D. Robb
#46. He gave them nicknames, including a series of people he assigned the name Stupid.
C.J. Chivers
#47. When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.
Pierce Brown
#48. Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?"
Caine shook his head. "No, I have not."
"Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.
Michael Grant
#49. I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.
Toni Morrison
#50. I wondered if he was opposed to nicknames for people in general, or if he just knew the weight of using a proper name - the power it held over people. The doors opened and a dark-haired, muscular man
Laurelin Paige
#51. Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.
Chespirito
#52. Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'
Joe Klein
#53. The Blue Hose of Presbyterian College and the Ichabods of Washburn University are perhaps the most amusing nicknames in collegiate sports; Blue Hose refers to stockings, not to melancholy courtesans.
Gregg Easterbrook
#55. My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
Henry Louis Gates
#57. I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
Vanessa Hudgens
#58. In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
Snoop Dogg
#59. Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Ernie Harwell
#61. One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
Earl Monroe
#63. Because I've got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."
"Why are they all high-calorie foods?
Richelle Mead
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#69. That's right, Sha-kira?" I shook my head "No, sorry. My hips do lie." "Damn ok, back to the drawing board.
Amanda Kelly
#71. When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.
Emo Philips
#72. I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.
Quentin Tarantino
#74. There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
Hesiod
#75. What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.
Judith Martin
#76. By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.
Thomas Asbridge
#77. 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
#78. Proper names are poetry in the raw.
Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
W. H. Auden
#79. You definitely are deep water Dr. Fisher. Fathoms deep.
J.M. Richards
#80. Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.
Demetri Martin
#81. You. O Positive. How many exits?"
"What? ... Oh shit, did you just call me by my bloodtype?
Rachel Caine
#82. Persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science ...
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy
Thomas Carlyle
#83. In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.
Bella Heathcote
#84. Want to make it a date, haircut?' she asked. 'As soon as I can scrape together the cash for the train ticket?'
What's with the "haircut," kiddo?' he asked. 'I thought we were past that.'
We'll never be past that,' she said.
Maureen Johnson
#85. Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?'
'I'm called Chocho,' Will said ...
'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!
John Flanagan
#86. At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl.
Diana DeGarmo
#88. My nickname when I was young was Teddy, so people would call me Teddy Bear.
Mila Kunis
#89. [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
#90. Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.
Snoop Dogg
#91. Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.
Cassandra Clare
