There’s something that doesn’t make sense. Let’s go and poke it with a stick.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don’t care. That’s why it’s cool.

I’d forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can...

The Doctor: Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t blink.

Who takes the Pandorica takes the Universe. But bad news everyone. ‘Cause guess who! Hah! Listen, you lot, you’re all whizzing about. It’s really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because...

Geronimo!

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Amy: I never knew you drank wine.Doctor: I’m 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life.*takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful!The Doctor: It’s just a nightmare, Reinette, don’t worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares!Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?The Doctor: Me!

Well we’ve moved through the funfair a bit – we’ve done the rollercoaster, now we’re on the ghost train.

Amy Pond: ‘I thought… well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.’The Doctor: ‘Amy Pond, there’s something you better understand about me, ’cause it’s important and one day your life...

Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you’re busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you’re Father Christmas!The Doctor: Who says I’m not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?Rose: [shocked] What?The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me...

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.

It’s a funny thing about stories. It doesn’t feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven’t got it yet, because somewhere out there,...

Don’t play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I’m the Doctor, and you’re in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

Madge: I don’t know why I keep shouting at them.The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point...

The Doctor: Doctor Song, you’ve got that face on again.River: What face?The Doctor: The “He’s hot when he’s clever” face.River: This is my normal face.The Doctor: Yes it is.River: Oh, shut up.The Doctor: Not a...

Creatures from another world, only statues when you see them. Lonely Assassins, that’s what they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from, but they’re as old as the Universe, or...

Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir. The Doctor: Ah, there you are, Angel Bob. How’s life? Sorry, bad subject. Angel Bob: The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve....

This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising something quite terrible. My head was entirely empty. A vast echoing void. Bigger...

River Song: Right then. I have questions, but number one is this – what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It’s a fez. I wear a fez now....

I don’t know. I can’t tell the future I just work there.

I think that’s the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there if that’s your bag, but they’re not essential to your enjoyment of it. An awful lot of storytelling isn’t...

The Doctor: ‘You know when grown-ups tell you everything’s going to be fine, but you really think they’re lying to make you feel better?’ Amelia: ‘Yeah…’The Doctor: ‘Everything’s going to be fine.

Hello, old friend. And here we are. You and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well and...

I’ll be a story in your head. That’s okay. We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? ‘Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man...

When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it’ll never end. But however hard you try you can’t run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I...

Kathy Nightingale: What’s good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It’s happy for deep people.

We’re all stories, in the end.

You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

Don’t blink

You should always waste time when you don’t have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that’s the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but...

The Doctor: Dr. Song, you’ve got that face on again.River: What face?The Doctor: The ‘he’s hot when he’s clever’ face.River: This is my normal face.The Doctor: Yes, it is.

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have...

Come on, Rory! It isn’t rocket science, it’s just quantum physics!-The Doctor (Matt Smith)

The Doctor: Amy, what are you doing?Amy: That gravestone, Rory’s, there’s room for one more name isn’t there?The Doctor: What are you talking about? Back away from the Angel. Come back to the TARDIS, we’ll...

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point in them being happy now if they’re going to be sad...

The Doctor: This is bad, I don’t like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you’re cross, in which case… always use force! Amy: Shall I run...

E’ difficile parlare dell’importanza di un eroe immaginario.Ma gli eroi sono importanti. Gli eroi ci dicono qualcosa di noi stessi. I libri di storia ci dicono cosa siamo soliti essere, i documentari ci dicono chi...

You don’t want to take over the universe. You wouldn’t know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.The Doctor: Believe me… It was an accident.

Think you’ve seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me… nothing will ever be the same...

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.