In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

You want books? We’re in a library-books! The best weapons in the world!-Tenth Doctor

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

At least I could relate to Rose’s sense of adventure and Harriet Jones’ wacky determination and ingrained sense of responsibility. I can stomach the Tardis when my heroines are in place.

The Doctor. He grabbed hold of Rory’s ankle, dragging him protesting out from under the table. ‘Rory!’ he grinned, wrapping him in an enourmous bear hug that squeezed the breath out of him. ‘I’ve been...

He wondered if today was that day, if he’d wake up different, wake up someone else who remembered him fondly. A new Doctor. He wondered if he’d approve. Would he be more gentle? That might...

Okay then. That’s what I’ll do. I’ll tell you a story. Can you hear them? All these people who lived in terror of you and your judgment. All these people whose ancestors devoted themselves, sacrificed...

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...

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That’s cactI. Alien: And that’s racist!

I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who...

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 way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the...

You see, there’s a drill:1. I [Amy] will say ‘Right then, let’s go and rescue him [Rory].’2. The Doctor will say ‘Ah yes, but…’3. And then he’ll list the fourteen things that we have to...

Very efficient,” a new voice said approvingly. He decided to take it as a sign of approval, anyway. The speaker was a European-looking youth with a slightly haughty air.

Gonna have to give myself a mental enema when we get back to the TARDIS.

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

So we’re getting close to suggesting that camp is both the opposite of cool and a refinement of it. Camp and cool both have an element of not-caring, of disdain for the ordinary. The difference...

Anywhere you want. Any time you want. One condition – it has to be amazing.

The Doctor: I just don’t like nastiness, and people getting away with it.Churchwell: That sounds a rather, if you forgive me, innocent view.The Doctor: That’s as may be, but I’m sticking to it.

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...

Rose wasn’t ‘ordinary’. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her ‘Here, I could give you the universe, but I’m not going to in case you get hurt? There’s all...

Rory’s not my pet dog!’ I [Amy] yelled at the Doctor.’Well, that would be better.’ He was truly angry. ‘Dogs I can live with.’ He paused, suddenly hopeful. ‘Quite sure you’re not a cat person?”This...

I’m the Doctor; I’m worse than everybody’s aunt!

I’ve never been one to resist a single entendre.

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...

*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!

I’m about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It’s important that I’m properly dressed.

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.

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

So now it’s space and time,” he said. “You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?””All the time,” she said dryly, “on the BBC. And don’t think I wouldn’t sell my soul for a TARDIS.

But Amy Pond. Oh! The Sea had briefly been able to touch her mind — it knew that the Doctor was the most important thing in the world to her, and it had given a...

The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before...

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at...

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

The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a...

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves

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

If you want more people to come to the theatre, don’t put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays...

Now here’s Amy Pond, standing in the freezing ocean, holding the body of her imaginary friend, and shouting at the sea to make him better.Yeah. If only my therapists could see me now.

The Doctor was strapped to a wide table of some kind, and Turlough immediately started on the straps that held him. “We must stop meeting like this.” “Very amusing,” the Doctor replied with an irritated...

I sat with my feet up on my desk and started to make a mental list of the people who’d want me dead. Once I got to fifty, I decided this wasn’t helping.

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?

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

The Master: Where’s the TARDIS?The Doctor: Just stop. Just think.The Master: Kill him! I need that technology, Doctor. Tell me where it is or the old man is dead.Wilfred: Don’t tell him!The Master: I’ll kill...

I do think there’s always a way to put things right. If I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn’t eat breakfast; I wouldn’t leave the TARDIS ever....

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…...

He took her by the hand and led her out of the control room and into a little side room. There, amid a lot of sculpting paraphernalia, was her statue. The statue from the museum....

I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes ‘empowered’ for ‘strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with

Yes, he likes Alphie. Though he prefers Stormegedan Dark Ruler of all

He seemed as oblivious to it as he probably was to the meaning of the word.