“The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.” PeopleIfsTwoWeekStreetsNormalSixSeriesSurprisingTwo Weeks Author:Paul McGann
“They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.” StrongAtheismStreetsNormalClothesCornersTreatmentProphecyProtestantsJerusalemGroundingStreet Corners Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory
“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.” KnowsWorldWantGivingDifferentHomeRealityForgetStreetsPerspectiveGiving UpNormalAlternativesJust OneNever Giving Up Author:Alain de Botton
“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.” PeopleMenWayFeelsBelieveStatesCharacterWantedI BelieveSpaceStreetsColorNormalDrawsTreatedHarassmentHyperStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.” PeopleStatesHandsGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesStreetsWallNormalCriminalsManifestationRemarkableGangsters Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansLooksPersonsFallCausesResultsTalkingStreetsFashionNormalModelsRevengeExperimentsDesignerClothingsUnfortunateLackingLensesInitialsDecencyFashion DesignerPorkEyeglassesGrateLeading CausesFashion Model Author:Dave Barry
“The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsLooksPersonsMadeSaidHardKidsStreetsStrangeNormalUnhappy Author:Klaus Nomi
“This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.” WayDreamLife IsFightingHouseWaitingPrayerSecretStreetsAdventureBedNormalTablesDinnerScoreDaily LifeApartmentOur DreamsUnfoldingSidewalkPrecious ThingsDinner TablePedestrians Author:Shauna Niequist
“I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.” WantPersonsAbleWalksKnownStreetsNormalTreated Author:Michael Schumacher
“Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.” I CanWalksStreetsMinutesStageStupidNormalLabelsWarningNormal LifeReally WeirdRollercoaster Author:James Blunt
“People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.” PeopleIdeasStreetsNormalTownsSmall Town Book:The Back Door of Midnight Source: The Back Door of Midnight
“How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.” PeopleMaySinDealsStreetsCarBrotherNormalTreatsConfusionDislikeReverenceDay To DayIndicationInterruptionsBumperStickerReverence For LifeRagamuffin GospelWinos Book:The ragamuffin Gospel Source: The ragamuffin Gospel