Atala Quotes & Sayings

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells. — Anthony Atala

The mirror sighed and spoke in a tone tinged with melancholy. Its language was old and not of any of the worlds known or unknown.

What you dream, what you darkly desire,

Find it by trial or by fire.

Seek it high and seek it low,

Search the skies or the realms below.

Look everywhere but beware,

The deepest magic, the strongest spell

Will not change what the stars foretell. — Sukanya Venkatraghavan

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. — Margaret Fuller

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. — Franz Werfel

Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe,' would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss is about. This made signs rather a waste of time, but at least it meant that when you handed what was left of the wizard to his grieving relatives you could say, as they grasped the jar, 'We told him not to. — Terry Pratchett

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular. — Anthony Atala

I'd given up trying to explain Hobie to Boris: the house, the workshop, his thoughtful way of listening (...) but more than anything a sort of pleasing atmosphere of mind: foggy, autumnal, a mild and welcoming micro-climate that made me feel safe and comfortable in his company. — Donna Tartt

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? — Harriet Martineau

[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence. — John McCain

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement, — Anthony Atala

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things. — Elvis Costello

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. — Kenneth Clark

Each thought we think and thought we have resonate in the world around us. They can strengthen and dissipate a field of energy that surrounds and affects us. We are surrounded by webs of energy, each of which has various paths of descent and ascent through its own fields and web structures that connect to others. — Atala Dorothy Toy

They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down. — Michel Faber

The most powerful social media ... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings. — Alex Atala

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking. — Jane Roberts

I thought I had found a living volcano, a female Vesuvius. I never thought of a human ship going down in an ocean of despair, in a Sargasso of impotence. — Henry Miller

The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL — Alex Atala

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture. — Alex Atala

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful. — Max McKeown

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ. — Anthony Atala

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated. — Isaac Newton

All human beings on earth, no matter what situation or status they find themselves in, are to be honored, respected and congratulated. — Atala Dorothy Toy