Nickname Quotes

117 quotes by 106 authors

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname. — Alan Alda
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball. — Summer Altice
A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors.… — Stephen Fry
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post.… — Thomas Holcomb
I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs… — Hazel McCallion
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy — Thomas Carlyle
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… — Pumpsie Green
Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is… — Demetri Martin
A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a… — Joseph Conrad
My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye — Thom Yorke
My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth — Thom Yorke
My nickname in college was talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll doll because I'm a talentless midget… — Thom Yorke
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is… — Charles Macklin
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
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… — John Arbuthnot
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… — Frank Zane
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around… — Hermann Hesse
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known… — Daniel Tammet
If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it. — Jennifer Lee
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… — Katherine Amelia Towle

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