Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

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.

My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'

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

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

People sometimes call me Wolf.

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!

A good name is better than precious ointment.

I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.

I'm the man of a million names.

You can be known as Val or Babycakes.” His gaze darkened. “My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.” She shrugged. “Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way.

What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'

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

It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

My name is not 'William Shatner.'

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!