Book Quote by Mira Nair

“Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!”

— Mallika Nawal

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city…

— Lewis Buzbee

“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”

— Graham Swift

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were…

— Alan Kay

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look back five years ago, when I thought I was adult and knew everything about the world, and I realize I knew nothing.

— Neve Campbell

The world knew you before you knew the world.

— Annie Dillard

“He sat at his television and thought he knew the world. The skies were purple in the daytime and red at night. The grass…

— M.B. Watson

I thought that I knew the world pretty well. I mean this is what I do for a living, I've been in government or…

— Morgan Ortagus

“He knew what she knew – that the world they lived in most days was an illusion of safety, that the real world, without…

— Reneé Porter

“I knew clearly that I could not rebuild my life or put it back together in any way. I had no idea what might…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Now he realized that somehow those who had served in France and elsewhere knew a world that couldn’t be shared. How could he tell…

— Charles Todd

“Nothing was resolved but I knew I would never see the world the same again.”

— Tammy Roth

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

— John McCain

“...those days were the only time in my life when I knew why I was in the world. It was the only time I…

— Anonymous