Rod Serling Quotes About Twilight Zone

Quotes about: Twilight Zone

• There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

  Rod Serling

  Dark, Light, Darkness

• You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Moving, Twilight, Keys

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1961)

• Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

  Rod Serling

  Ideas, Scary, Earth

• If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

  Rod Serling

  Drug, Needs, Twilight Zone

• For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Children, Twilight, Prejudice

  "The Twilight Zone (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. March 4, 1960.

• In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Dislike Someone, Prejudice

  "Serling in Creative Mainstream". Interview with Ellen Cameron May, Los Angeles Times (pp. C22-23), June 25, 1967.

• We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Cereal, Able

• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Rod Serling

  Peace, Ubuntu, Prejudice

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

• All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Buchenwald, Dachau

  "The Twilight Zone (Deaths-Head Revisited)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. November 10, 1961.

• Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Rights, Dignity

  "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Twilight Zone" ("The Obsolete Man", 1961), www.imdb.com. 1959–1964.

• for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

  Rod Serling

  Peace, Fear, Race

  "Fictional character: narrator". "The Twilight Zone. The Shelter", www.imdb.com. 1961.

• It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

  Rod Serling

  Eye, Degrees, May

  "Character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone", TV Series (1959–1964). "The Long Morrow", www.imdb.com. 1964.

• Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Frustration, Skulls

  1957 InVogue,1Apr.

• Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

  Rod Serling

  Imagination, Mind, Limits

• The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Attitude, Twilight, Prejudice

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

• You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Journey, Sight

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1959)

• Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight Zone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

  Rod Serling

  Funny, Dance, Humor

• A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and knees and wear diapers or walk with a cane and comb their beards. There's a wondrous magic to Christmas, and there's a special power reserved for little people. In short, there's nothing mightier than the meek, and a merry Christmas to each and all.

  Rod Serling

  Wise, Children, Merry Christmas

  "The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1960.

• There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Science, Men

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1963)

• Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, People, Talent

• Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Twilight, Space

  Rod Serling (1990). “The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories”, TV Books Incorporated

• This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Reality, Land

• You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight Zone, Ends, Explosions

• The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under 'M' for mankind... in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Men, Rights

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