Shortened Name Quotes

#1. Crap was not a bad word. It was the shortened name of the marketing genius of the best known flush toilet, John Crapper. Really.

Faith Hunter

#2. I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I should be thought a crank but nations do not, I think, ascend on such tomatoes.

Russell Hoban

#3. I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.

Mark Billingham

#4. Perpetual optimism is good for the mind.
Perpetual hope is good for the heart.
Perpetual faith is good for the heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. For present purposes he's shortened the name. He's only Snowman. He's kept the abominable to himself, his own secret hair shirt.

Margaret Atwood

#6. You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

Moses Malone

#7. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Hermann Hesse

#8. I married Miss Right, but didn't know at the time she had shortened her name from Righteouspainintheass

Josh Stern

#9. I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.

NeNe Leakes

#10. I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Diego Della Valle

#11. Our universe grants every soul a twin-
a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love.

Julie Dillon

#12. Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

Christopher Moore