Nicknaming Quotes & Sayings

Radar was our other best friend. We called him Radar because he looked like a little bespectacled guy called Radar on this old TV show M*A*S*H, except 1. The TV Radar wasn't black, and 2. At some point after the nicknaming, our Radar grew about six inches and started wearing contacts, so I suppose that 3. He actually didn't look like the guy on M*A*S*H at all, but 4. With three and a half weeks left of high school, we weren't very well going to renickname him. — John Green

I'm not being nice, I'm being truthful, — Lili Valente

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on. — Amy Jo Johnson

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup. — Frances Conroy

By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'. — Thomas Asbridge

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males. — Florence King

And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms. — Orson Scott Card

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you — Wilson Mizner

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. — Logan Pearsall Smith

If you've been engaging in intellectual flattery, ask a role model to lunch and practice talking about your own views or work. — Valerie Young

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. — Jane Leavy

It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes. — Robert Herrick

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it ... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff. — Joel Siegel