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Rod Serling QUOTES

Rod Serling QUOTES

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

― Rod Serling , The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

2 " In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them. "

― Rod Serling

3 " Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. "

― Rod Serling

4 " As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies. "

― Rod Serling

5 " he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell. "

― Rod Serling , Requiem for a Heavyweight and Other Plays - Tragedy in a Temporary Town, The White Cane and The Elevator (Scope Play Series)

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

― Rod Serling

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

― Rod Serling , The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

8 " Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. "

― Rod Serling

9 " The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic. "

― Rod Serling

10 " I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don’t let any of it go by without enjoying it. There won’t be any more merry-go-rounds. No more cotton candy. No more band concerts. I only wanted to tell you, Martin, that this is the wonderful time. Now! Here! That’s all. That’s all I wanted to tell you. "

― Rod Serling , Stories from the Twilight Zone

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

― Rod Serling

12 " I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist. "

― Rod Serling

13 " For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice 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

14 " 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

15 " Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. "

― Rod Serling

16 " Farewell, Timothy Riley’s Bar," Lane said softly. "Home of the nickel beer. Snooker emporium. Repository of Bluebird records, three for a dime. We honor you and your passing. Farewell. Farewell, Timothy Riley—and terraplanes and rumbleseats and saddle shoes and Helen Forrest and the Triple-C camps and Andy Hardy and Lum ‘n’ Abner and the world-champion New York Yankees! Rest in peace, you age of innocence—you beautiful, serene, carefree, pre-Pearl Harbor, long summer night. We’ll never see your likes again. "

― Rod Serling , Rod Serling's Night Gallery (Rod Serling's Night Gallery #1)

17 " 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

18 " for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized "

― Rod Serling

19 " 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 , The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

20 " Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown. "

― Rod Serling , The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories