In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of 'Junk,' which doesn't do a lot for one's self-esteem.
She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!
I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
I think it was Dad who gave me my nickname 'Katy Custard,' recognising my deep, positive and lasting relationship with it.
My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.
I got the nickname 'Deacon' because I didn't swear, didn't drink, went to church, and did quite a bit of speaking in other churches, youth groups, and so forth.
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.
I nickname my cars. Most of the time, it doesn't make any sense. One of my Benzes I call Justin Bieber. My Maybach is Oprah.
My teammates, they kid me all the time. My nickname is the doctor or the president in the locker room.
As a kid, my nickname was Tarzan. I never wore shoes, and I walked around and fished and camped out and just was a grub.
I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.
I got the nickname T-Rex when I was 11 years old. Back when I was younger, I was very skinny and I had short arms, but I used to always be swinging.
My parents never gave me a nickname. But for my friends, I am everything from 'Nushki' to 'Nusheshwar.'
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.
I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!
There is one nickname that my mate wants me to have... it's The Ace. I'm happy for a campaign for people to start calling me that!
No one knows exactly when I got the nickname Doro, but I've been called that as long as anyone can remember.
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
My dad loved Deco as a player. He started calling me Deco as a nickname around the house.
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
It's a badge of honor to have your name called by Trump and be made a nickname.
My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named Country Breakfast.'
I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.
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.
We don't have the same philosophy, but I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to have a nickname associated with Jose Mourinho.
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
When I arrived at Roma, someone defined me as Giotto, 'The Painter,' but the nickname I prefer is the one I got from Captain Francesco Totti, 'The Little Prince.'
Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.
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 truth.
For as long as I can remember, my nickname was Dusty. I remember my dad naming me that because of the streets where we lived.
Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.
Somehow I wound up with the nickname 'Bitcoin Jesus,' so people expect me to know about everything everywhere.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.
In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.
I actually gave Mike Tyson his 'Iron Mike' nickname.
My nickname at school was Caveman. When I tell people my name is Kayvan, some insist on going 'Caveman?'
My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.
I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
A nickname is not supposed to be your only name. I miss Jennifer a bit.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
It's a great honour to have the nickname of Iceman, it makes me feel very proud of my achievements.
'Old Dominion' is the nickname for the state of Virginia, and four of us have ties to Virginia.
I did get the nickname 'craptain' from the Yorkshire dressing room. A bit of banter which I thought was quite funny.
Does he have a nickname?' Diana went on remorselessly. 'I mean, 'gaiphage' is so long. Can we call him phage? Or maybe just 'G'?
A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.
I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.
My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.
The only nickname I've ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don't know why.
My nickname when I was young was Teddy, so people would call me Teddy Bear.
I've got a friend whose nickname is "Shagger". You might think that's pretty cool. She doesn't like it.
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. Rather chilling.
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