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RevdKathy

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Any series, any doctor, sad, witty, unintentionally funny. What are your favourite lines and quotes from 50 years?

To kick off, BobTheSkutter and I just watched "Vengeance on Varos" and fell about laughing when the Sil ranted "How dare I be spoken to like that!" ... huh?
 
ONE
"Fear makes companions of all of us, Miss Wright"

TWO
"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority."

THREE
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. "

FOUR
"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. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

FIVE
"You know how it is: you put things off for a day and next thing you know, it's a hundred years later."

SIX
"Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly."

SEVEN
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."

EIGHT
"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there."

NINE
"I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go… That's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home. "

TEN
"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy. You get one warning. That was it."

ELEVEN
"I’ll be a story in your head. But that’s OK: we’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know, it was the best: a daft old man, who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you I stole it? Well, I borrowed it; I was always going to take it back."
 
I rewatched the first couple of episodes of the second series last night and this line by Sarah Jane from "School Reunion" resonated with me (due to personal reasons):

"Some things are worth getting your heart broken over."

I'm not quite sure, yet, whether that's really true but it's something for me to ponder.
 
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My knowledge is limited, because I've only seen Fourth Doctor episodes and a smattering of Ninth and Tenth Doctor episodes. But this line is a favorite from my teenage years, as a puzzle solution.

From Pyramids of Mars (Fourth Doctor):

DOCTOR: Which indeed. They're both contra-programmed so that one will always give a false indication. One question. If I were to ask your fellow guardian the question, which switch would he indicate?​
 
Some great quotes - loved the ones from The Mirrorball Man. That quote from the 4th Doctor sounds strangely modern. I might snag it for a sig.

Keep 'em coming!
 
"Right, then. This isn't going to be big on dignity."

Often said before I dig into an exceptionally greasy cheeseburger or a pile of chicken wings.
 
"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought!"
 
"Look, three options. One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can. And then I find a new name, cos I won't be the Doctor any more."
 
Just watching one of the documentaries from Watch and heard this one that I love
Ricky, now let me tell you something about the human race. you put a mysterious blue box slap-bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now stop your nagging. Let's go and explore.
 
One I quote a lot, from the audio drama Neverland-- Charley asks the Doctor a question, gets an answer she doesn't understand, and comments, "Well, I may be none the wiser, but I daresay I'm better informed." (I think it's an Austen riff.)
 
Fourth Doctor:
"Homo sapiens! What an inventive, invincible species! It's only been a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenseless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable... indomitable. "
 
"Have you noticed how people's intellectual curiosity declines sharply the moment they start waving guns about?"
- Fourth Doctor

"HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!"
-Fourth Doctor

"I say; what a wonderful butler, he's so violent!"
- Fourth Doctor

"An apple a day keeps the... ah, never mind."
- Fifth Doctor

"In all my travelings through the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilization: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen; they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power, that's what it takes to be really corrupt!"
- Sixth Doctor

"I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon... in Cardiff!"
- Ninth Doctor

"Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I!"
- Ninth Doctor

"Tracked you down with this. This is my timey-wimey detector. Goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces. Whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow."
- Tenth Doctor
 
"Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences." - Seventh Doctor
 
SIXTH DOCTOR: (referring to Peri not getting that the universe is about to end, or something like that; I forget):

"She can't comprehend the scale of it all.... Eternal blackness. No more sunsets. No more gumblejacks. Never more a butterfly."

Sir Rhosis
 
Yeah, Three had a lot of great and funny lines.

I just rewatched "Rise of the Cyberman/The Age of Steel" and it contains one of my favourite quotes from Ten:

"You just don't get it, do you? An army is nothing! 'Cause those ordinary people, they're the key. The most ordinary person could change the world."
 
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