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• Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Christian, Women, Knitting

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• Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Character, Average, Parent

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

  Ted Nugent

  Dope, Foolish, Enough

  "Captain McShitpants Says PANTERA's Version Of 'Cat Scratch Fever' Had 'No Soul, No Balls'". Ted Nugent's postings to his official message board quoCaptain at Blabbermouth.net, May 14, 2006.

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• 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

  School, Call Me, My Friends

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• A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Taken, Men, May

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• persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science…
  Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

  Thomas Carlyle

  Political, Wigs, Economics

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• Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Names, Doubt, Chance

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• People tried to test me (in 1999) and I came up with some pretty good throws. Everybody on the team calls me 'Bazooka' now. That's kind of like a nickname I gave myself.

  Albert Belle

  Team, People, Bazookas

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• I don't need any nicknames.

  Victor Cruz

  Needs

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 22, 2010.

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• I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

  Gary Carter

  Spring, Kids, Winning

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• Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?" "I didn't know you were looking." Well, I've given the matter some serious thought." "And what have you come up with?" "Cookie," I anounced proudly. Xavier scrunched up his face. "No way." "You don't like it? What about Bumblebee?" "Worse." "Snookie-Wookie?" "Do you have any cyanide?" "Well, some of us are just a bit hard to please.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Cookies, Bumblebees, Matter

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• Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in the army." I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." My father's mouth dropped open and a piece of ham fell out. My mother froze, her fork poised in midair. That's sort of a joke," I told Grandma. "Rangers don't get dogs pregnant in real life." I looked at Ranger for corroboration and got another smile.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Dog, Father

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.644, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

  John Arbuthnot

  People, Historical, Hocus Pocus

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• I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.

  Nick Valensi

  No Friends, Television, Tvs

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• Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

  Michael Crichton

  Cards, Business Card

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• I’m an executioner, Leta, hence my Demon nickname. They send me in to take the heads off people and gods who’ve stepped over the line, usually only because someone has PMS. You want justice, Themis’s office is down the hall on the left. You want death and dismemberment, I’m your man…or rather god. (Deimos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Pms, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.115, Macmillan

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• You are so vicious. (Tee) Hence the nickname. (Syd) You know it’s bad when you make me look like Glinda the Good Witch, right? (Tee) Just call me Elphaba. But don’t drop a house on me, ‘kay? (Syd)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  House, Looks, Witch

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• With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.

  Cassandra Clare

  Insulting, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.

  Taye Diggs

  Past, College, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name.

  Sharlto Copley

  Struggle, Names, America

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• I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.

  Eliza Coupe

  Mother, Dad, Crazy

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

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• Chance is a nickname for Providence.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Chance, Providence, Chances Are

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• Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is "red alert." I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Breathing, Wife

  "Matt Damon Reveals His Insecurities". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 17, 2011.

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• I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.

  Henry Cavill

  School, Mean, Want

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• Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

  Keke Palmer

  Years, Names, Four

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

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