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Peeves do not make very good pets. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way. -- J. K. Rowling
Peeves do not make very good pets. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. -- Steven Pinker
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation. -- Whoopi Goldberg
I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish. -- Art Alexakis
Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine. -- Tabatha Coffey
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine. -- Katie Holmes
My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there? -- Karen Scalf Linamen
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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
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
I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself. -- Austin Stowell
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.' -- Rashida Jones
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
Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy. -- Alicia Keys
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
My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan. -- Jerry Ferrara
Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist. -- Lena Dunham
Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself. -- James Nares
One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars. -- Chris Carmack
Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves. -- Big Sean
I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation. -- Whoopi Goldberg
I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation." -- Whoopi Goldberg
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance. -- Eva Longoria
One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners. -- Roma Downey
One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different. -- Blake Shelton
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
One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing. -- Joseph Altuzarra
One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream. -- Marisha Pessl

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