Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the…

— J. I. Packer

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

— Henry Adams

“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves…

— Twyla Tharp

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.…

— D. Elton Trueblood

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.”

— Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting.…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what…

— Cynthia Nixon

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news…

— Matt Cutts

Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up…

— Kate Beaton

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

— Maria Edgeworth

The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but…

— Cindy Sherman