Subject/people

Famous quotes containing the words subject and/or people:

“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the inner force of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air—a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we have to go to them so as to learn what they are like.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)