Petchey Quotes & Sayings

God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing. — M. V. Heberden

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something. — Avi

Whatever happens to a baby contributes to the emotional and perceptual map of the world that its developing brain creates. As my colleague Bruce Perry explains it, the brain is formed in a "use-dependent manner."5 This is another way of describing neuroplasticity, the relatively recent discovery that neurons that "fire together, wire together." When a circuit fires repeatedly, it can become a default setting - the response most likely to occur. If you feel safe and loved, your brain becomes specialized in exploration, play, and cooperation; if you are frightened and unwanted, it specializes in managing feelings of fear and abandonment. As infants and — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Of course I have a personal life. — Rudolf Nureyev

Even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang on to the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed. — Mark Haddon

He had an orange stain on his mouth from the prawns, the old jabberwock. — Donna Tartt