“And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.” PeopleMatterProblemBigsTodayCitiesStreetsSeriousHorseEnvironmentalAutomobileBig CitiesEnvironmental Problems Book:People and Performance Source: People and Performance
“I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.” ThinkingGivingFeelsFirstsBelievePainWalksAttentionStreetsSeriousDon't BelievePanicStrainPanic Attacks Author:Ellie Goulding
“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.” KidsMotherFatherStuffTeachStreetsCrimeSeriousProtectCriminalsGangHardened Author:Steven Seagal
“I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.” FeelsStreetsSeriousMarriedMad Author:Young Jeezy
“Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements.” ArtistPresidentStreetsSeriousResponsiblePaintImprovementOfficialsPresident ObamaDetroitPostersSprayVandalismSpray Paint Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.” LyingGuySunStreetsSeriousGayBeachCaliforniaPunkUnemploymentPercentagesCollectingBodybuilder Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I've generally gotten negative feedback from men who don't understand and don't find street harassment to be a serious issue. I've also gotten a lot of responses from women who are appreciative and thankful for the project; who relate to it who are passionate about it.” MenIssuesStreetsSeriousProjectsNegativeResponsePassionateRelateFeedbackHarassmentAppreciativeSerious IssuesStreet HarassmentNegative Feedback Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.” WorldSometimesLightSeemsCultureMy OwnCreativeStreetsSeriousMovedObsessionHeatSuspectsTransformedMetaphysicalIndigenousDisturbedTropicalStreet LifeVibrancyRawnessIndigenous Culture Author:Alex Webb
“I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life.” KnowsMayStillsHardShowsKidsHouseFourWeekStreetsSeriousMy FamilyMaking MoneyGrandmaHoodMy GrandmaGrandma's House Author:Shy Glizzy
“I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.” ThinkingKindStreetsSeriousWalkingPlaying MusicFiddle Author:Frank Fairfield
“We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.” PeopleKnowsNeedsSocialConsciousnessStreetsMediaSeriousInternetAppearanceSocial MediaSpreadSignificantDramaticPavement Author:Michael Eric Dyson