Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.

Look at this lot – how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We’re not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we’re with him matters.

The Doctor and Donna see each other across the roomThe Doctor: Donna?Donna: Doctor!The Doctor: What are, what are you—?Donna: Oh. My. God!The Doctor: How?Donna: It’s me!The Doctor: I can see that.Donna: Oh this is brilliant!The...

The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

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.

You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

Don’t get me started on the whole Doctor-Amy-Rory thing. It’s kind of like… I dunno. Suppose you’d always fancied Ryan Reynolds. That’s fine, yeah. You meet someone else, who is maybe not Ryan Reynolds, but...

Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn’t?Bracewell: What? Amy: Hurts, doesn’t it? But kind of a good hurt.

It was the sort of day when deciding what to wear is like planning a military operation. Believe me – I have considerable experience of both.

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!

Rose:i love youDoctor:Quite right, and i guess if it’s my last chance to say it… Rose Tyler…(the doctor fades, him in his TARDIS, with tear tracks and a tear running down his cheek)

We’re all stories in the end.

Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier’s mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in...

Geronimo!

This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

I know what you must think of me,’ [the Doctor] said, his voice so slow. It was like a voice designed for laughing that didn’t get to do it often. ‘I’m going to tell you...

What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn’t talk about, but to...

Listen … The universe is full of creatures that can get inside your soul. Things that try to take away the very things that make you who you are, who try to reshape you for...

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

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them … in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.

The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what...

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

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*

We teleported,” Issie finishes. “Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever...

He was in love with Eve and ran around like some kind of inter dimensional Dr. Who with a sonic screw loose.

I dunno about you, but I’ve always fancied knocking off early for a quiet night in with Call The Midwife. Do you get that here, sir?””No,” I told him. For some reason a smile was...

Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you?Idris: I think you call me… Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we’re...

I don’t think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the “jelly men” were going...

Donna to the policewoman: Don’t you touch this car!The Doctor watching: She’s not changed.Wilfred: Oh. There he is. Shawn Temple. They’re engaged. Getting married in the Spring.The Doctor: Another wedding.Wilfred: Yeah.The Doctor: Hold on, she’s...

There was a goblin, or a trickster or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it or...

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...

In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands...

He was… wearing a tasselled velvet nightcap that I [Amy] noticed the Doctor eyeing up. If Boris didn’t watch out, that’d go missing and we’d never hear the end of ‘Nightcaps are cool.

Doctor: ‘I am not a hero.”Robin Hood: ‘Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may...

I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.

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.

Rose: My mum’s here.The Doctor: Oh, that’s just what I need! Don’t you dare make this place domestic!Mickey Smith: You ruined my life, Doctor. [the Doctor turns and looks at him, irritated] They thought she...

I’m not impossible,just a bit unlikely

I’m hard to get rid of.” He smiled. All Tegan’s suspicions about the boy came flooding back. “So it seems,” she replied icily.

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...

They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved...

Maria?… She’s been writing all this down? Oh, bless her…’ He leafed on through the pile. ‘Although that’s not how that happened… and no, she’s wrong, bowties are cool.

The TARDIS can look like whatever it wants.

He had on – oh wow, he was wearing that outfit again. The one he’d lost in the prison. ‘Hang about,’ Sam managed.‘How’d you get –’‘I made a little side trip,’ said the Doctor. ‘There’s...

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: [hologram, speaking towards the console] This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger,...

He’d actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: ‘Come to the Cabaret!

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

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,...