Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
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.
My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as I could have hoped. I am their daughter and they love me, so it was great when they didn't disown me.
Peeves do not make very good pets.
I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.
[T]he nags. . . the national association of gals, that's our pet name for the NOW gang. . . the nags are a bunch of whores to liberalism.
If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.
Our pets are our family.
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.
I love pets, especially dogs.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
See?” I’d whispered to Bones, nudging him with a grin. “He never argues with her. Isn’t that sweet?” A snort preceded his response. “Keep dreaming, pet.
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
Dogs are miracles with paws.
That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think. . . people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.