Nicknames Quotes

• Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

  Edna Ferber

  Names, People, Giving

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

  Ellen Page

  World, This World, Feels

  "Interview: Ellen Page Talks Whip It". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. October 1, 2009.

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• A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Names, Forever, May

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• Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Humorous, Names, People

  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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• Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Argument, Eloquence

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.219

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• Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

  Alan Alda

  Well Known, Wells, Tagged

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• 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

  Real, Kids, Names

  "What I've Learned: Snoop Dogg" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Titles

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.46, e-artnow

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• No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Humorous, Names

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• 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 freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

  Hermann Hesse

  Character, People, Fearless

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 123, 1919.

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• A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Names, Devil

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters”, p.278

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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

  Giving, Wells

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• I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

  Steve Sabol

  Neat, Fascinated

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

  Carrot Top

  People, Carrots, Call Me

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• 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

  Funny, Thinking, Guy

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• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

  Taye Diggs

  Past, Infatuation, Know Me

  filmcritic.com Interview, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hate, Years, Parent

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Aug 18, 2012

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• The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Humorous, Blow, Men

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 32

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• 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

  Sports, Feet, Bigs

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• I don't have any nicknames.

  Sally Ride

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• You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.

  Kerry Washington

  Cities, Boards, Ongoing

  "Scandal's Kerry Washington Reveals the Warning She Gave Her Publicist (and Her Major Cupcake Obsession!)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Proper names are poetry in the raw.
  Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

  W. H. Auden

  Names

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• My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

  James Franco

  Teacher, School, Years

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• Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Fate, Names

  "Poor Boys Who Became Great". Book by S. F. Smith, 1888.

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• 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 Alexander Eastman

  Religious, Names, Symbolic Meaning

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.14, World Wisdom, Inc

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