Quatermass

(Various quotes from Quatermass episodes. Written by Nigel Kneale.)

A specialist tends to see everything in his own light.

All that "flying objects" business. Very fashionable. Quite de riguer for a bit, to have a nodding acquaintance with a few little green men.

An experiment...is an operation designed to discover some unknown truth. It is also a risk.

Coincidence: A breeder of false theories.

Crazy people are the ones that often have a better understanding of really unusual things.

Crazy people have a bit of kid about them.

Evil is always something else's good.

If you're after a wild beast, you don't chase it all over the landscape—you bring it to you. You bait a trap for it.

If you're Jewish, you think old.

If you're not a fool, you must believe...in the whole world of spirits.

If you've got to break it to the world, tell the the bald truth.

If you want funny things to happen, leave it to the government.

It's possible, you see, not to be aware—if you're old enough, and selfish enough.

It's the final nightmare when you wake from it and find that it still goes on.

Memoirs are an indulgence.

Old astronauts never die.

Out here, a million light-years from Earth, there's work to do.

People don't believe nothing's happened no more unless they seen it on the telly!

Rockets make holes in the skin of the world.

Sick people can take very strange fancies.

Stop trying to know things.

The mad are sane!!!

There's no harm in the belief. If people want to believe the Moon is made of green cheese, there's no harm in that either.

Think small, think in picoseconds.

This is no longer the unexpected. When the conditions are known, action can be taken.

This is the way the world ends...Hardly even a whimper. Just like a missed appointment. No time for courage or sacrifice. Nothing grand like that. Not even for a proper booze-up.

We've got to express our views. We're men, not mechanical computers.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

When there was less government about, things were better.

Women's screams—that's a real alarm signal.

You got to look after your brain.