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• New teeth. that's weird. So where was I? Oh, that's right! Barcelona! - Children In Need Special• Up to you. Back to your mum... it's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast--- no, Christmas! Turkey! Although... having met your mother... nut loaf would be more appropriate. - Children In Need Special
• Rude and not ginger. - The Christmas Invasion
• A Great Big Threatening Button Which Must Not Be Pressed Under Any Circumstances. Am I right? - The Christmas Invasion
• Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York since the original. So that makes it New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York. - New Earth
• I'm the Doctor. And if you don't like it... if you want to take it to a higher authority, then there isn't one. It stops with me. - New Earth
• Ah.. ah! Two hearts! Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba! - New Earth
• China invades Vietnam... The Muppet Movie! Love that film. Margaret Thatcher... urgh... Skylab falls to Earth... with a little help from me... nearly took off my thumb. - Tooth & Claw
• There we are then, we run. Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigourous jog. - Tooth & Claw
• Correctomudo! A word I have never used before and hopefully never will again. - School Reunion
• Well... UFO sightings, school gets record results - I couldn't resist. What about you? - School Reunion
• I'm so old, now. I used to have so much mercy. - School Reunion
• No really, you are, you're gorgeous! Look at that! Space age clockwork, I love it! I've got chills! Listen, seriously, I mean this from the heart - and, by the way, count those - it would be a crime, it would be an act of vandalism to disassemble you. - The Girl In The Fireplace
• I'm the Doctor. And I just snogged Madame de Pompadour! - The Girl In The Fireplace
• And still have begged for moooore... I could've spread my wings and done a thou-- have you met the French? My... GOD, they know how to party. - The Girl In The Fireplace
• I think just invented the banana daiquiri a few centuries early. Do you know, they've never even seen a banana before! Always take a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are good. - The Girl In The Fireplace
• Um... oh, that's a thought, I'm gonna need money. I was always a bit vague about money. Where do you get money? - The Girl In The Fireplace
• Oh, Lumic, you're a clever man... I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room. - The Age Of Steel
• Talk too much, that's my problem. - The Age Of Steel
• Well... for starters... I know you can't wrap your hand around your elbow and make your fingers meet. - The Idiot's Lantern
• It's never too late, as a wise person once said - Kylie I think... - The Idiot's Lantern
• Sorted. Electrical creature, TV technology, clever alien life form - that's me by the way. I turned the receiver back into a transmitter and I trapped the Wire in here. I just invented the home video 30 years earlier. Betamax. - The Idiot's Lantern
• I dunno what's wrong with her, she's sort of... queasy. Indigestion, like she didn't wanna land. - The Impossible Planet
• Just stand there, 'cause I'm gonna hug you. Is that all right? - The Impossible Planet
• Pfft... I'd have to settle down. In a house or something, a proper house with... with... with... with doors and things. Carpets! Me! Living in a house! Now that... that is terrifying. - The Impossible Planet
• Oh, did you have to? No turning back? That's almost as bad as 'nothing can possible go wrong' or 'this is is gonna be the best Christmas Walford's ever had' - The Impossible Planet
• We've found something. It looks like metal. Like some sort of seal. I've got a nasty feeling the word might be 'trapdoor'. Not a good word, 'trapdoor'. Never met a trapdoor I liked. - The Impossible Planet
• Just in time for the opening doo dah - ceremony... tonight, I thought you'd like that. Last one they had in London was dynamite. Wembly, 1948. I loved it so much, I went back and watched it all over again. - Fear Her
• I had a passing fancy. Only it didn't pass, it stopped. - Fear Her
• My... um... Snakes and Ladders? Quite good at... Squash. Reasonable. I'm... being facetious, aren't I? There's no call for it. - Fear Her
• Whoa, there it goes again! (show Rose the back of his hand) Look at the hairs on the back of my manly hairy hand. - Fear Her
• Top banana! - Fear Her
• What do you mean, shift? Since when did ghosts have shifts? Since when did shifts have ghosts? What's going on? - Army of Ghosts
• Nnnnow you've just killed us. - Army of Ghosts
• I like that. 'Allons-y'. I should say 'allons-y' more often. 'Allons-y'. Watch out, Rose Tyler! Allons-y! And then, it would be really brilliant if I met someone called Allonzo. Because then I could say, 'allons-y, Allonzo'! Every time! - Army of Ghosts
• They can shoot me dead, but the moral high-ground is mine. - Army of Ghosts
• Hmm. She's not the best I've ever had. Bit too blonde. Not too steady on her pins. A lot of that. And just last week, she stared into the heart of the Time Vortex and aged 57 years. But she'll do. - Army of Ghosts
• Deluded. Bless. I'll have to trade her in. Do you need anyone? She's very good at tea. Well, I say very good, I mean not bad. Well. I say not bad... anyway! Lead on. But not too fast. Her ankle's going. - Army of Ghosts
• So, you find the breech, probe it, the sphere comes through. Six hundred feet above London, bam. It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality. And that hole, you think, "oh, shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off? Shall we play it safe?" Nah, you think "let's make it bigger!" - Army of Ghosts
• No! Fair enough. Said my bit. Don't mind me. Any chance of a cup of tea? - Army of Ghosts
• Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I travelled through time and space with her mother... (...) I've got a reputation to uphold. - Army of Ghosts
• It's not an invasion, it's too late for that. It's a victory. - Army of Ghosts
• You can't just-- just-- just hop from one world to another. You can't. - Doomesday
• They're part of the problem. And that makes them part of the solution. Oh yes! - Doomesday
• I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye. - Doomesday
• Rose Tyler. Defender of the Earth. - Doomesday
• Are you sure he's human? He's not a bit overweight with a zip around his forehead, is he? - The Runaway Bride
• The funny thing is, for a spaceship, she doesn't really do that much flying. - The Runaway Bride
• Oi! Santa! Word of advice: if you're attacking a man with a sonic screwdriver... (into the microphone) ... don't let him near the sound system. - The Runaway Bride
• Only a madman talks to thin air and trust me, you don't want to make me mad. - The Runaway Bride
• Blimey, you can shout. - The Runaway Bride
• 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!"; • I warned you. What happens next is your own doing. - The Runaway Bride
• My mate Ben, that was a day and a half. I got rope burns off that kite. And then I got soaked and then I got electrocuted. - Smith and Jones
• It's a screwdriver and it's.... sonic. - Smith and Jones
• Have you seen?! There are these.... things. These.... great, big space rhino things! I mean rhinos from space! And we're on the moon! Great big space rhinos, with guns, on the moon! And I only came in for my bunions! Look... Oh, they're all fixed now, perfectly good treatment, the nurses were lovely, I said to my wife, I said, I recommend this place to anyone. But then we end up on the moon! And.... did I mention the rhinos? - Smith and Jones
• Sorry, you'll have to excuse me, I'm a little bit out of depth. I spent the last fifteen years working as a postman, hence the bunion. - Smith and Jones
• Well! Sometimes I have.... guests. I mean, some friends travelling alongside me. I had.... it was recently.... a friend of mine. Rose, her name was. Rose, and.... we were together. Anyway. - Smith and Jones
• Come on! We can all have a good flirt later! - The Shakespeare Code
• The sky's burnt orange, with the citadel enclosed in a mighty glass dome, shining under the twin suns. Beyond that, the mountains go on forever. Slopes of deep red grass, capped with snow. - Gridlock
• Black tie... Whenever I wear this, something bad always happens. - The Lazarus Experiment
• Oh, I think the explanation might be you've been fooled by a simple olfactory misdirection, a little bit like ventriloquism of the nose. It's an elementary trick in certain parts of the galaxy. But it has gotta be said, I don't like the look of that hydrokinometer. It seems to be indicating you've got energy feeding back all the way through the retro-stabilizers feeding back into the primary heat converter. 'Cause if there's one thing you shouldn't have done... you shouldn't have let me press all those buttons. But, in fairness, I will give you one word of advice: Run! - The Family of Blood
• 1969. Not bad as it goes: you've got the moon landing to look forward to. - Blink
• I tracked you down with this. This is my timey-wimey detector. Goes ding when there's stuff. Also it can boil an egg at thirty 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.... - Blink
• 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. - Blink
• Sorry, I've got a complex life. Things sometimes don't happen to me in the right order. Especially weddings. I'm rubbish at weddings. Especially my own. - Blink
• Gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard. - Blink
• Oh, might have spent a million years evolving into clouds of gas ... and another million as downloads, but you always revert to the same basic shape: the fundamental human. End of the universe and here you are. Indomitable, that's the word! Indomitable! Ha! - Utopia
• Well, perfect to look at, maybe. And it was, it was beautiful. They used to call it the Shining World of the Seven Systems. And on the continent of Wild Endeavour, in the mountains of Solace and Solitude, there stood the Citadel of the Time Lords. The oldest and most mighty race in the universe. Looking down on the galaxies below, sworn never to interfere, only to watch. Children of Gallifrey were taken from their families at the age of eight, to enter the Academy. Some say that's where it all began, when he was a child. That's when the Master saw eternity. As a novice, he was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the Untempered Schism. It's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of Time and Space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad. - The Sound of Drums
• Look at you! The hat, the coat, the crickety-cricket stuff, the... stick of celery, yeah.... brave choice, celery, but fair play to you, not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable. - Time Crash
• Oh, no, of course. You mostly went hands-free didn't you? Like, 'Hey, I'm the Doctor. I can save the universe using a kettle and some string! And look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable!' - Time Crash
• No, no beard this time. Well, a wife. - Time Crash
• Christmas is a time of- of peace, and thanksgiving, and.... What am I on about? My Christmases are always like this! - Voyage of the Damned
• There's something else I've always wanted to say: Allons-y Alonzo! - Voyage of the Damned
Well, perfect to look at, maybe. And it was, it was beautiful. They used to call it the Shining World of the Seven Systems. And on the continent of Wild Endeavour, in the mountains of Solace and Solitude, there stood the Citadel of the Time Lords. The oldest and most mighty race in the universe. Looking down on the galaxies below, sworn never to interfere, only to watch. Children of Gallifrey were taken from their families at the age of eight, to enter the Academy. Some say that's where it all began, when he was a child. That's when the Master saw eternity. As a novice, he was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the Untempered Schism. It's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of Time and Space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad. - The Sound of Drums