The Doctor

"There's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box!"

"YOU — ARE — MY — ENEMY. AND I AM YOURS! You are everything I despise. The worst thing in all creation. I have defeated you time and time again. I have defeated you. I have sent you back into the Void. I have saved the whole of reality from you. I am the Doctor, and you are the Daleks!"

"A weeping angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life-form evolution has ever produced and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and I'm supposed to climb in after it with a screwdriver and a torch, and assuming I survive the radiation long enough and assuming the ship doesn't explode in my face, do something incredibly clever which I haven't actually thought of yet. That's my day, that's what I'm up to. Any questions?"

"Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap — if you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow — there's one thing you never — ever put in a trap. … Me."

"I have a thing. It's like a plan, but with more greatness."

"One simple instruction: don't follow me under any circumstances."

"Annihilate? No. No violence, do you understand me? Not while I'm around. Not today, not ever. I'm the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm."

"Hello Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news everyone …'cos guess who? Ha! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about. It's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute? BECAUSE I-AM-TALKING! — Now the question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer — I do. Next question, who's coming to take it from me? — Come on! Look at me, no plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else: I don't have anything to lose! So! If you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you! And then, and then... do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first."

"The Doctor: 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. And nothing could stop it or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world. Amy: How did it end up in there? The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it. River: [to Amy] I hate good wizards in fairy tales — they always turn out to be him."

"The box contains a memory of the universe, and the light transmits the memory — and that's how were going to do it. … Relight the fire. Reboot the universe."

"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many of them."

"Rory: Doctor, River was brainwashed to kill you. The Doctor: Well, she did. And then she used her remaining lives to bring me back. As first dates go, I’d say that was mixed signals."

"If you have been inside my head, then you know what I have seen. The suffering. Every moment in time and space is burning. It must end, and I intend to end it the only way I can."

"Oh, the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?"

"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame. Whatever the cost."

"Never give up. Never give in."

"Rose: So what you’re saying is, the whole world revolves around you? The Doctor: Sort of, yeah. Rose: You’re full of it. The Doctor: Sort of, yeah."

"It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standin' still. I can feel it; the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinnin' at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're fallin' through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... That's who I am."

"The paper's slightly psychic, makes them see whatever I want them to see."

"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive."

"Well, you can stay there if you want! … But right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the Horsehead Nebula. Fires are burning ten million miles wide! I could fly the TARDIS right into the heart of it and ride the shockwave all the way out. Hurtled right across the sky and end up anywhere! Your choice."

"You're right: I am dangerous, I don't want anyone following me."

"The last of the great space dustbins How does it feel?"

"We're not the same! I'm not the... No, wait, maybe we are... Yeah, right, yeah, okay. You've got a point 'cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. Exterminate!"

"Rose, now listen; this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape. And that's okay — hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. And I bet you're fussing and moaning now — typical! But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it; no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing, that's all, one thing — Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life."

"Rose: I can see everything. All that is. All that was. All that ever could be. The Doctor: That's what I see, all the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?"

"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 again!"

"Right, okay, [clears throat.] New teeth. That's weird. So, where was I? Oh, that's right! Barcelona!"

"The Doctor: Human?"

"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap tricks."

"The naming won't work on me."

"The shape of the Globe gives words power, but you're the wordsmith! The one true genius; the only one clever enough to do it. … Trust yourself. When you're locked away in your room, the words just come, don't they, like magic. Words, the right sound, the right shape, the right rhythm, words that last forever. That's what you do, Will. You choose perfect words. Do it. Improvise!"

"Daleks are bad enough at any time, but right now they're vulnerable. And that makes them more dangerous than ever."

"There have been too many deaths today; way too many people have died. Brand new creatures and wise old men and age-old enemies, and I tell you, I tell you right now, I am not having one more death!"

"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."

"Yeah, listen, listen, got to dash... things happening. Well... four things. Well... four things and a lizard."

"We're at the end of the universe. Okay?! Right at the edge of knowledge itself! And you're busy... blogging!"

"You wouldn't listen. Because you know what I'm going to say... I forgive you."

"All my love to long ago."

"I am... Spartacus."

"Donna: You are completely impossible! The Doctor: Not impossible... just a bit unlikely."

"Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark, but they're wrong, because it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada … It's what's in the dark. It's what's always in the dark."

"Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked and 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."

"There are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died."

"For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner! That's who I am: the Time Lord Victorious! -->"

"Something is returning, don't you ever listen!? That was the prophecy: not someone, something!"

"Physician, heal thyself."

"Why is there never a big red button?"

"I’m the Doctor — I’m an alien from outer space, I’m 1000 years old, I’ve got two hearts — and I can’t fly a plane!"