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Tag Name "Peeves" (14)

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Peeves do not make very good pets.
Robert Foster Bennett
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Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.
Craig Lancaster
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One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.
Glenn Howerton
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The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have resulted in a giant mess, where someone's pet peeves - like John Dryden and his hatred of terminal prepositions - could become real standards.
Kory Stamper
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Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
Steven Pinker
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Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.
Walter Alston
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
Zachary Levi
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
Al Yankovic
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When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
Eva Longoria
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It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking. Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question. What was that? Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer? I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. I am never going to share my pet peeves with you a
Jennifer Rardin
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Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.
Maggie Stiefvater
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What? Was he raised in a barn? Didn’t he ever learn how to close a door? Amateur shape-shifters…No manners whatsoever.” – Sasha “Do we need to get you a Midol before we go?” – Sundown “I’m not that easy to soothe, cowboy. My peeves are on a cellular level.” – Sasha
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
Thomas Pynchon
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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
Whoopi Goldberg