Doctor Who Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Thinking, Impossible Things, Doors

  "Doctor Who: Children in Need Special". TV Series, November 18, 2005.

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• You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

  Steven Moffat

  Book, Library, World

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• 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

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Tomorrow, Traps

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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

  Doctors, Games, Play

  "Doctor Who (Forest of the Dead)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. June 7, 2008.

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• Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Doctors, Blue

  "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters, www.bbc.com. May 24, 2010.

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• You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as 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 — and they turn into something so beautiful.

  Steven Moffat

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Amy Pond". "Doctor Who" ("The Girl Who Waited"), www.imdb.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

  Harlan Ellison

  Stars, War, Doctors

  "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

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• Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

  Matt Smith

  Men, Mad, Important

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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

  Space, Messages, Time And Space

  "Fictional character: Rose". "Doctor Who". Season 1, Episode 13: "The Parting of the Ways", www.imdb.com. June 18, 2005.

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

  Norman Barrett

  Death, Pain, Science

  Quoted in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 94: 430 (2001)

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• MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Class, Voice

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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

  Want, Knows, Universe

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• I would wait in line for anything to do with Doctor Who.

  Manny Coto

  Doctors, Waiting, Lines

  "Comic-Con 2011: 'Dexter's' Manny Coto on Harlan Ellison, Tights and Cloning William Shatner". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 19, 2011.

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• And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

  Rene Cassin

  Children, Military, Doctors

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• It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Gay, Doctors

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• Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

  Sarah Sutton

  Teacher, Drama, School

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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

  Clever, Doctors, People

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.39, Del Rey

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• Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Doctors, Sight, Blood

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• The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Health, Witch Doctors, Knowing

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• The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

  William Hartnell

  Running, Doctors, Years

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• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Doctors, Practice Of Medicine, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

  Robert Fulghum

  Lying, Doctors, News

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• A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

  Marcel Proust

  Science, Doctors, Fool

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1111, Wordsworth Editions

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• The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Doctors, Accepting, States

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