Atala Quotes

#1. You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.

Nicole Krauss

#2. Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Mark Twain

#3. The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL

Alex Atala

#4. When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.

Otto Harbach

#5. 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

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

Anthony Atala

#7. When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.

Frances Osborne

#8. He shoves his hands in his pockets, which is okay by me because his hands are forever distracting, all the things they could do.

Courtney Summers

#9. 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

#10. I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

Alex Atala

#11. When the giants fight, mostly the dwarfs die!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

Duane Elgin

#13. For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.

Seneca.

#14. My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Condola Rashad

#15. Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

Anthony Atala

#16. You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing - your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

David Foster Wallace

#17. We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

Steven Pinker

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

Alex Atala

#19. 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

#20. Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

P.D. Ouspensky

#21. I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

Tilda Swinton