- "See, there's the thing: I'm the Doctor, but beyond that.... I - I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? [winks at Rose] Right old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed? Left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence I've certainly got a gob!"
- "Not bad for a man in his jim-jams, very Arthur Dent - now, there was a nice man."
- "Oh, I'm - I'm dazed and confused. I've been chasing this wee naked child over hill and over dale. Ain't that right, ya.... tim'rous beastie?"
- "Stars and magic? I like him more and more."
- "So, physics! Physics, eh? Physics! Phyyyysics! Physics, Physics, Physics, Physics, Physics Physics, Physics, Physics, Physics... I hope you're getting all this down!"
- "Is that bad?" "Imagine how bad things could possibly get, and then add another suitcase full of bad."
- "What's a horse doing on a spaceship?" "Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!"
- "What have you been doing? Where have you been?!" "Well, among other things, I think I just invented the banana daquiri a couple of centuries early."
- "This is my lover, the King of France." "Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time."
- "What makes his version of the truth any better than mine? Hmm? 'Cause I'll tell you what I can see: humans. Brilliant humans. Humans who travel all the way across space. Flying in a tiny little rocket into the orbit of a black hole! Just for the sake of discovery. That's amazing. Do you hear me? Amazing."
- "Sweet, maybe... passionate, I suppose... but don't ever mistake that for nice."
- "I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye."
- "Oooh, 57 academics just punched the air!"
- "He's completely insane!" "That, and a bit...magnificent."
- "Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person."
- "There's no such thing as an 'ordinary human.'"
- "Don't they teach recreational mathematics anymore?"
- "He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful."
- "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.... timey-wimey.... stuff."
- "I'm a bit of a hermit." "A hermit? With friends?" "Hermits United. We meet up every ten years and swap stories about caves. It's good fun...for a hermit."
- "Brave choice, celery...but fair play to you, not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable."
- "I know what it's like. Everything you're feeling right now. The fear, the joy, the wonder. I get that."
- "We're going to the country. Fresh air and geniuses! What more could you ask?"
- "Well, that's not a very good nickname. What if you do get defeated? "Staal the Not-Quite-So-Undefeated-Anymore-But-Never-Mind"?"
- "You are completely impossible" "Not impossible, just a bit...unlikely."
- "He saves planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures ... and runs a lot. Seriously, there is an outrageous amount of running involved."
- "Well, you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up "genocide". You'll find a little picture of me there, and the caption'll read "Over my dead body"."
- "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 do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment accepts it."
- "The towers sang, and you cried."
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