Best Rod Serling Twilight Zone Quotes

#1. I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

Kate Burton

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

Rod Serling

#3. A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.

Rod Serling

#4. Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#5. 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

#6. Think of everyday life as karate training.

Gichin Funakoshi

#7. If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.

Walt Disney Company

#8. 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

#9. I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

Rod Serling

#10. If you've had the time to think about it, then you have time to pursue it.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. You gotta BELIEVE, Bolie!

Rod Serling

#14. You told me there wouldn't be any Rod Serling voice-overs, yet here I am in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, and let me guess the title of it, Night of the Terminally Stupid! (Channon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

Rod Serling

#16. Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

Joshua Leonard

#18. If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

David Ben-Gurion

#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

#20. 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

#21. 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