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“The only water in the forest is the River.” ― Neil Gaiman

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“I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I’m gonna die in a dungeon…. [disgustedly] in Cardiff!” ― Russell T. Davies

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“Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the inside.” ― Neil Gaiman

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“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek’s New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.” ― Mark Gatiss

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“Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below” ― Steven Moffat

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“I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe. And everywhere I went I saw people just like you, living as slaves! But if Martha Jones became a legend then that’s wrong, because my name isn’t important. There’s someone else. The man who sent me out there, the man who told me to walk the Earth. And his name is The Doctor. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I’ve seen him, I know him… I love him… And I know what he can do. – Martha Jones” ― Russell T. Davies

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

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“If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.” ― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts

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“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

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“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*” ― Steven Moffat

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“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, there’s that perfect thing — the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you’ve always been heading for, but never expected to go.” ― Steven Moffat

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“See the bowtie? I wear it and I don’t care. That’s why it’s cool.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting” ― Robert Holmes

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“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.” ― Elton Pope

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“Never run when you’re scared. Rule 7.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.” ― Steven Moffat

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

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

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“Well we’ve moved through the funfair a bit – we’ve done the rollercoaster, now we’re on the ghost train.” ― Steven Moffat

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“He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn’t someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.” ― Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked

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“Why do humans never do as they’re told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn’t, bad idea.” ― Jonathan Morris, Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel

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“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.” ― The War Doctor Steven Moffat

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“I don’t know. I can’t tell the future I just work there.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Some people live more in twenty year than others do in eighty. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person. – The Doctor” ― Stephen Greenhorn

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“Now… Just run.’ [said the Doctor.]
One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor is never to question him when he says that word. You just run. It’s almost like breathing.” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“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

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“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.” ― Russell T. Davies

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“Kathy Nightingale: What’s good about sad?

Sally Sparrow: It’s happy for deep people.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way.
Canton: Stuff does that.” ― Steven Moffat

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“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop” ― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

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“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.” ― Steven Moffat

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“I’d forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.” ― Steven Moffat

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“As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves” ― William Hartnell

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“Amy: This time can we… lose the bunk beds?
The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can’t beat that!” ― Neil Gaiman

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“We all change, when you think about it. We’re all different people all through our lives. And that’s OK, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.” ― Steven Moffat

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“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

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“*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!” ― Russell T. Davies

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“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they’re dull as a brick. But then there’s other people, and you meet them and you think ‘not bad, they’re okay’, and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality’s written all over it, and they just they turn into something so beautiful…” ― Amy Pond Doctor Who series

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“River Song: Right then. I have questions, but number one is this – what in the name of sanity have you got on your head?
The Doctor: It’s a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.” ― Steven Moffat

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“It’s Smith, actually.’ Dr Smith smiled, bowing. ‘I’ve remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means ‘noble valiant warriot’ and not ‘he who hits kittens with a hammer.’ You’d be surprised the derivations of common surnames in the English countryside…” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“I am Melody Malone, with ice in my heart and a kiss on my lips. In the city that never sleeps and should never blink, mysteries are my business.” ― Melody Malone, The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

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“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, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

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“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

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“The Doctor: I’ve seen bigger.
Clara: Really?
The Doctor: Are you joking? It’s massive!” ― Steven Moffat

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“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.” ― Melody Malone, The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

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“Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?” ― Natalie Repinski

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“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 million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle.
[Adam faints]
The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He’s your boyfriend.” ― Russell T. Davies

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“LEELA: ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question.’ That is a very stupid question!
THE DOCTOR: It’s Shakespeare.
LEELA: And that is a very stupid name. You do not shake a spear, you throw it! Throwspeare, now that is a name.” ― John Dorney, Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Boxset

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“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 just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.” ― Catherine Tate

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“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 if you think of the Tardis! Holy canola! That is just the coolest thing ever! Wowie, wow, wow!” ― Carrie Jones, Endure

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“Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you’re busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.” ― Steven Moffat

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“One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.” ― William Hartnell, Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes, Collection Two: 1965-1966

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“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!” ― Steven Moffat

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“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.” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.” ― Russell T. Davies

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“What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other – absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly.” ― Russell T. Davies

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

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“The Doctor: You know how adults tell you everything’s going to be fine, just to make you feel better?
Amelia: Yes.
Doctor: Well…..everything’s going to be fine.” ― Steven Moffat

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“The Doctor: You know how adults tell you everything’s going to be fine, just to make you feel better?
Amelia: Yes.
Doctor: Well…..everything’s going to be fine.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Amy: “Can I come?”
Doctor: “Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I’ll be right back.”
Amy: “People always say that.”
Doctor: “Am I people?…Do I even look like people?…Trust me, I’m the Doctor.” ― Steven Moffat

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“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.” ― Tommy Donbavand, Doctor Who: Shroud of Sorrow

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“Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.” ― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

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“Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant… Rose?
The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!” ― Gareth Roberts

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“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 hold it or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world…” ― Steve Moffat

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“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 perhaps he’s got the same goofy smile. And you think, ‘Yeah, that’s it, I’m happy.’ Then Ryan Reynolds himself roars up in a camper van and says ‘Hey guys! Let’s all go on a road trip. Bring the boyfriend! It’ll be fun.’ Only Ryan Reynolds doesn’t save the universe. Well, not at weekends.
So I guess that’s my life. Crammed in a camper van, sneaking the odd glance at Ryan, squeezing the hand of my lovely husband…” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“I’ve lost the TARDIS as well.’
I [Amy] was outraged. Considering my husband was dying and we were stranded in the past, the Doctor seemed fairly calm about things. ‘Someone’s nicked it!’
‘Not so much, no.’ The Doctor looked awkward. ‘There’s a mechanism… thingy. If the TARDIS senses a threat it removes itself from the scene. First sign of danger, it goes and hides behind the curtains.’
‘Whose genius idea was that?’
The Doctor swallowed, embarrassed. He claims to be the last of the most advanced race in the universe. Sometimes, I’m just not convinced.” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“Chairs are useful” ― The Doctor Matt Smith

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“The Doctor puffed out some air and looked down to the sea. ‘A very charming man. I should be more careful of very charming men… At least I don’t have that problem with you, Rory.’
‘Oi,’ said Rory.” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“The secret is not just to be stunning, which I find comes rather easily, to be honest. The tricky thing is getting exactly the right level of stun for the occasion.” ― Melody Malone, The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

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“Don’t blink” ― Steven Moffat

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“Complicated” is my middle name.’ Actually, it’s not my middle name – any more than Malone is my last name. Whether Melody is really my first name is, well, complicated.” ― Melody Malone, The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

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“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.” ― Melody Malone, The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

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“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.” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“Rumpty!” he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.” ― Paul Cornell, Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

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“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.” ― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood

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“Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780s was probably punishable by stoning or corsets.” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“Everything ends and it’s always sad, but everything begins again, too. And that’s always happy. Be happy. – Return of Doctor Mysterio” ― Steven Moffat

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“Don’t worry, I’m shielding you. When we crashed here and it first attacked me, I was caught with my mental trousers down. Not anymore. Psychic force field’s intact. Belts and braces. Braces, by the way, are very cool.” ― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

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“Rule 1: The Doctor lies.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well… not yet, give me time and a crayon.” ― Matt Smith

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“Geronimo!” ― Steven Moffat

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“Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well… not yet, give me time and a crayon.” ― Matt Smith

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“I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.” ― Matt Smith

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“Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.
Dalek Sec: This is not war – this is pest control!
Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
Dalek Sec: Four.
Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect.
Cyber Leader: What is that?
Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.” ― Russell T. Davies

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“You should always waste time when you don’t have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Rose: ‘If you are an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the north?’
Doctor: ‘Lots of planets have a north!” ― Russell T Davies

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“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… and a crayon.” ― Steven Moffat

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“I’ll be a story in your head. That’s okay. We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? ‘Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don’t alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.” ― Chris Boucher

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“Come on, Rory! It isn’t rocket science, it’s just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith)” ― Steven Moffat

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“Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.” ― Neil Gaiman

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“The Doctor: ‘You know when grown-ups tell you everything’s going to be fine, but you really think they’re lying to make you feel better?’
Amelia: ‘Yeah…’
The Doctor: ‘Everything’s going to be fine.” ― Steven Moffat

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“You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!” ― Steven Moffat

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“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. – Tim Latimer” ― Paul Cornell

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“The Doctor: Doctor Song, you’ve got that face on again.
River: What face?
The Doctor: The “He’s hot when he’s clever” face.
River: This is my normal face.
The Doctor: Yes it is.
River: Oh, shut up.
The Doctor: Not a chance.” ― Steven Moffat

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“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.” ― Steven Moffat

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“Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.” ― Steven Moffat

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“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 may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.” ― Steven Moffat

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“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

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“Bow ties are cool.” ― Steven Moffat