The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

- Amy Tan

In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.

- Alain Ducasse

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

- Adrian Tomine

I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.

- Adrian Tomine

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

- Adam Lambert

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

- Aziz Ansari

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

- Arsene Wenger

One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.

- Anne Wojcicki

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

- Angela Merkel

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

- Andrew Young

My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.

- Action Bronson

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

- Amy Lee

My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

- Amiri Baraka

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

- Alicia Keys

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

- Alexander McQueen

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

- Alexander Fleming

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

- Aldous Huxley

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

- Alan Alda

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

- Ada Lovelace

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

- Action Bronson