Twilight Zone Quotes

• 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.

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• 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)

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• 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.

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• 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)

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

  Rod Serling

  Dark, Light, Darkness

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• Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

  Rod Serling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Rod Serling

  Imagination, Mind, Limits

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• But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, People, Good Questions

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone/ The After Hours", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.

  Robert Moss

  Distance, Twilight, Bridges

  Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.158, New World Library

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

  Rod Serling

  Writing, People, Talent

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

  Rod Serling

  Ideas, Scary, Earth

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Ends, Explosions, Shock

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• If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

  Rod Serling

  Magic, Sorcery, Quests

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• The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Twilight, Kids, Thinking

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• Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

  Bill Mumy

  Twilight, Television, Episodes

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  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.

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