Quotes of: Nicknames Keyword

I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

Natalia Vodianova

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

John Lydon

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

Ernie Harwell

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Creed Bratton

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

John Legend

Mickey Ward: Don't use their nicknames. Charlene Fleming: Rather not fuckin' call 'em anything.

The Fighter

A brick can be used as a nickname for people who are slow, both physically and intellectually. 

Brick and Blanket

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

Lauren Conrad

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

Skeet Ulrich

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

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

Jack Kent Cooke

When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.

Pixie Lott

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

Rashida Jones

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

Stephen Hawking

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

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

Stephen Rodrick

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

Bjork

I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.

Jimmie Johnson

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

William Hazlitt

Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

L'Wren Scott

My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname Trey because I was the third.

Trey Burke