According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
Phillip E. Johnson

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
Robert Jay Lifton

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
Walter Salles

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
Imogen Cunningham

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.
Rick Wakeman

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
Erykah Badu

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
Arthur C. Nielsen

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
Conrad Hall

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Anne Stevenson

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
Norman MacCaig

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
Geddy Lee

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Sextus Propertius

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
Faith Hill

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
Jacques Rivette

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Giorgos Seferis