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.
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.
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.
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.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
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.
When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. Dr. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, 1712. 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.
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.
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.
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy it is kindergarten.
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
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