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

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.

Geronimo!

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: 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*

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

We’re all stories, in the end.

Don’t blink

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

Never trust a hug. It’s just a way to hide your face.

The Doctor: Oh, now what’s this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That’s what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time…...

The Doctor: It’s my nose; it has special powers.Nancy: Yeah? That why it’s so…?The Doctor: What?Nancy: Nothing.The Doctor: What?Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?

The Doctor: I’ve seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? It’s massive!

The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up.Amelia: You’re soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said...