Doctor Who Quotes

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. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. River's voice continues over this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives.

~ Steven Moffat

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

~ Matt Smith

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 this would do me.

~ Steven Moffat

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

~ Steven Moffat

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.

~ Steven Moffat

I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?

~ Neil Gaiman

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 on the inside, but with nothing in it. You could drop a pebble in my brain and wait for an hour to hear it land. No actually, you couldn't - that would be aggressive and unhelpful, so keep your damn pebbles to yourself.

~ Steven Moffat

Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.

~ Steven Moffat

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

~ Eleventh Doctor

Don't interfere! The Doctor silenced her angrily. I cannot will my own destruction.

~ Peter Grimwade

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

~ Steven Moffat

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

~ Paul Cornell

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 Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him.

~ Peter Grimwade

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

~ Steven Moffat

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

~ Matt Smith

There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap.And what would that be sir?Me

~ Russell T. Davies

Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band.

~ Simon Nye

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

~ Peter Grimwade

There's an emergency link to the defence grid, but that's only for use in the direst emergencies. And of course a mile-long unknown intruder approaching your main source of power isn't an emergency? Karan hesitated, his chins wobbling slightly with their own momentum. It'll take time, but I could access the defence grid's sensor logs for that sector... I won't tell if you don't.

~ David A. Mcintee

The Doctor is all of us, he lives and dies as all of us, and we need him to – because no matter the anvil-imagery of the Doctor as Christ, this is actually a far older and far simpler story than that. Everything changes. We all regenerate. I am not the same woman who first saw Rose ascend. Years go by and I become someone new, with the same memories but a new face, a new self.

~ Catherine Valenti

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

~ Neil Gaiman

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first place. Don't prey on the weak. Don't steal from the helpless. Don't murder the innocent. Be a force for good, not a force for yourself.

~ Dan Abnett

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 I played in the style of a crumpet-lover, and then when Doctor Who came along, I embraced this lunacy, this cloud-cuckoo-land where people had to be convinced by absolute nonsense. I came from a very religious background, so it was easy for me to believe in something I knew nothing about.

~ Tom Baker

If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but sci-fi and action have a big slice of my heart. When I meet a man who can quote some Hitchcock out of thin air, do a perfect ''Timey Whimey'' impression, play me some classic rock when I'm sad and can give a 'Gone with the Wind' kiss, I will have my soul mate.

~ Melanie Kay Taylor

At the moment, it's simply a difference of opinon between the Doctor and you.. You both want the best. You've only tried to kill him a couple of times... I mean, don't worry about that. I've seen people do much worse to him and at the end of the day he'll take them out for pizza. He's very forgiving. The Doctor is brilliant,' [said Rory]

~ James Goss

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

~ Steven Moffat

[Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.

~ James Goss

Don't blink. Don't even blink. she whispered.What in the hell are you talking about? Aiden looked around trying to identify a hidden threat.You blink and you're dead. Meryn stared at the two large stone angels on either side of a heavy looking wooden door unblinking. Aiden's hand went to his sidearm.Meryn, that is just a statue.But what if it isn't? I mean up until this week I didn't think paranormals existed and now you're all over the fucking place. I can't take the chance.

~ Alanea Alder

The sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who might have worked, having been canonically established as being ineffective on wood, but nobody had ever figured out how to use the controls on the blasted thing.

~ Jim C. Hines

So... Boris. Are you evil?' [said the Doctor].'Not at all, my dear sir,' chuckled Boris.'You just chuckled,' groaned the Doctor. 'Chuckling's a dead givaway in my books. Along with putting your hands on your hips and snogging another man's wife.

~ James Goss

Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous.

~ Dan Abnett

No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed 'cause he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

~ Neil Gaiman

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 in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe

~ Steven Moffat

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

~ Steven Moffat

Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time.The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure of course when it probably doesn't count as a waste of time.Leela (yawning): I am sorry I did not hear what you said, Doctor.The Doctor (smiling): That was a waste of time then.

~ Chris Boucher

But Time Lords always travel in the T – in their Spectrels, don't they?Only if absolutely necessary.You what?It's another myth put about by those scoundrels. Dramatic effect and all that. It's all his fault.What do you mean?Who's fault.No, I asked you first.No, you clot. It's Who's fault – Dr bloody Who. That's who!Why?No, not Why. I said it's Who's fault.Whose fault?Yes. Who.What?No! Listen, damn you. Don't bring Why or What into it. It's nothing to do with them. It's Who's fault.That's what I'm trying to establish, Doctor. Whose fault is it?Yes. It's Who's fault; now, can we just bloody get on with it and stop arguing the toss and bringing the others into it?

~ Mark Speed

You said these guys are your cousins? Is that, like, for real? It's, like, not a turn of phrase?What on earth do you mean?Well, I refer to my bluds as cuz, sometimes. Is it like that, or is they real blood relatives?Yes, four of them are cousins. One of them is my twin brother. I'm sure you can guess who.Who?Yes.No, who?Exactly. The Doctor's gaze was in some far-off place, his voice low and monotone. He was always the troublesome one. He instigated the rift, cemented the separation. Blabbed to the Beeb. I can never forgive him for that. Never.

~ Mark Speed

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 this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

~ Jacqueline Rayner

We're all stories, in the end.

~ Steven Moffat

We're all stories in the end.

~ The Doctor