Time Enough at Last Quotes

Time Enough at Last is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Time Enough at Last ended in 1970.

It features Leith Stevens in charge of musical score.

Time Enough at Last Quotes

• (Mr. Carsville) "You, Mr. Bemis, are a reader."
• (Henry Bemis) "A reader?"
• (Mr. Carsville) "A reader. A reader of books, magazines, periodicals, newspapers. I see you constantly going downstairs into the vault during your lunch hour."
• (Mr. Carsville) "An ultimatum, Mr. Bemis. You will hensforth devote time to your job and forget reading or you'll find yourself outdoors on a park bench reading from morning to night for want of having a job. Do I make myself perfectly clear?"
• (Henry Bemis) "Oh, that's perfectly clear, sir, it's just that --"
• (Mr. Carsville) ""Just that" what, Bemis? Make it quick and get back to your cage."
• (Henry Bemis) "It's just that my wife won't let me read at home. See, when I get home at night and try to pick up a newspaper, she yanks it out of my hand. And then after dinner, if I try to find a magazine, she hides them. Well, I got so desperate found myself trying to read the labels on the condiment bottles on the table. Now, she won't even let me use the ketchup."
• (Mr. Carsville) "Unasked, I give my reaction to this: your wife is an amazingly bright woman."

• (Mr. Carsville) "I remember last November you spent the better part of the days reading campaign buttons on customer's lapels. You'll recall, Mr. Bemis, the young woman who took considerable offense at this and tried to hit you with her umbrella."
• (Henry Bemis) "I remember that very well, Mr. Carsville. She never gave me a chance to tell her that I was only looking at who she was voting for."

• (Rod Serling - Narrator) "Seconds, minutes, hours, they crawl by on hands and knees for Mr. Henry Bemis, who looks for a spark in the ashes of a dead world. A telephone connected to nothingness, a neighborhood bar, a movie, a baseball diamond, a hardware store, the mailbox that was once his house and now is rubble; they lie at his feet as battered monuments to what was but is no more."
• (Henry Bemis) "Helen. Helen. Where are you."
• (Rod Serling - Narrator) "Mr. Henry Bemis, on an eight hour tour of a graveyard."

• (Henry Bemis) "And the best thing, the very best thing of all, is there's time now -- there's all the time I need and all the time I want. Time, time, time. There's time enough at last."
• (Henry Bemis) "That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was, was all the time I needed --"

• (Rod Serling - Narrator) "The best-laid plans of mice and men; and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis; in the Twilight Zone."

• (Rod Serling - Narrator) "Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself; without anyone."

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