Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. Edmund Burke
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet. Nat Turner
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. Amy Tan
Mantovani was a great influence on me. Brian May
The mind is free and the slightest thought has great influence. It is therefore important that you think enlightened thoughts. Moroccan Proverb