“After a spent day, I walked back in a fever. The whole way home the sun touched my cheeks. The blissful evening glow spread across the meadows and I called this light the blood I shed. My hot burning blood lay consoling the entire world. So I walked with pride-- Now that all was tilled. I didn't know what was happening, I leaned against a fence post, in my blood that covered the meadows near and far.” HomeLightSunBloodConsolingClosing Time Author:Robert Walser
“As I sat on the back of his bike, Anh Bao pointed out local sex workers he recognized as they walked out of a bar with their arms wrapped around Viet Kieu men. He had gotten to know these women when he parked his bike outside the bar around closing time to offer cheap rides home to the women who had been unable to secure a client for the evening. Over the course of nearly three hours spent cycling the city, I took everything in—making mental notes of things I would later enter into my research. Anh Bao was a storyteller; and as we stopped outside each place, I propped on his bike laughing as he made up dramatic scenarios about the kinds of love affairs that occurred in each segment of the sex industry.” WomenResearchStorytellingStorytellerScenariosSex WorkersClosing TimeSex IndustryLove AffairsMental Notes Author:Kimberly Kay Hoang
“The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.” MinutesInternetBlueUglyBarsDrunkBostonClosingCollarsBlue CollarClosing Time Author:Leon Wieseltier
“Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.” IfsThinkingWantSaidShowsWantedCausesBabyClockClosingHaving A BabyClock Is TickingGynecologistsClosing Time Author:Carol Leifer
“...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.” MenStillsHardYoungWhiteLaughingStreetsAngryScaredDespiteIndianKitchenImmigrantsKnivesWhite ManFistsLitClosingPeanutsInfectionDisappearanceDissolutionPenetrationKitchen KnivesMiscegenationClosing Time Book:White Teeth Source: White Teeth
“Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.” YearsTwoShowsTogetherFacesThreeCrimeLonelinessBraveHungerBeerSensationsStomachThirstClosingHatefulBookstoresCnnBrowsingPressing OnBrave FaceClosing Time Author:Douglas Coupland
“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.” DoeHappinessPartyClosingPumpkinLeave Me AloneClosing DownClosing Time Author:Winston Churchill
“Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen, it is closing time.'” KnowsMenYearsGodBigsEarthScienceHumanityBeliefProgressStageKeysHundredRingsGods WillGentlemanChemicalsAtomsClosingDown To EarthClosing Time Author:Marcellin Berthelot
“Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?” GirlClosingUnanswered QuestionsClosing Time Author:Mickey Gilley