Tardis:Quote of the Week nominations/QotW Archive

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Quotes Prior to Policy

The following are previous Quotes of the Week that were displayed prior to the nomination and voting policy.

"Believe me, Doctor, the place is impregnable."
"Never cared much for the word 'impregnable'. Sound a bit too much like 'unsinkable'."
"What's wrong with 'unsinkable'?"
"Nothing, as the iceberg said to the Titanic." - The Brigadier, the Doctor, and Harry (DW: Robot)

"Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" The Doctor (DW: Aliens of London)

"Have you heard of the BBC? Marvellous people, all of them. Well, all right, some of them are a bit strange and they drink too much tea, which is rich, coming from me." - the Doctor to the Jabberwock (BFA: Zagreus)

"The Medusa Cascade, I came here when I was just a kid, 90 years old." - The Doctor (DW: The Stolen Earth)

"Jenkins, chap with wings there, five rounds rapid." - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (DW: The Dæmons)

"Is that really the Doctor? He seems such a nice old man." - The Doctor (DW: Shada)

February 2009 Quotes

4-9 February

"I say what a wonderful butler, he's so violent!" -The Doctor (DW: City of Death)

10-16 February

"Oooh... Defrost your very own Davros!" -The Doctor (BFA: Terror Firma)

17-22 February

"So that's what it's like inside? Ugh, it looks like someone threw up a squid dinner!" - Lucie Miller's thoughts on the appearance of a Kaled mutant. (BFA: Blood of the Daleks)

23-28 February

"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." The Doctor to Susan (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

March 2009 Quotes

2-8 March

"That is the dematerializing control. And that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy! Now please stop bothering me." - The Doctor (DW: The Time Meddler)

9-15 March

"If you're going to sit there wallowing in self pity, I'll bite your nose" - The Doctor (DW: The Brain of Morbius)

16-22 March

"Victory should be naked!" ― Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen (DW: Aliens of London)

23-29 March

"This is my final victory, Doctor, I have shown you yourself." Davros. Journey's End

March/April 2009 Quotes

30th March - 5th April

"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below! You got a problem with that?" (DW: Voyage of the Damned)

6th April - 12th April

"Sorry whats The Void?"

"The dead space some people call it hell."

"So let me get this straight you're going to send the Cybermen and the Daleks to hell, man I told you he was good." Mickey Smith to The Doctor (DW: Doomsday)

13th April - 19th April

Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink. Good luck. - The Doctor (DW: Blink)

20th April - 26th April

"We've gone way past 100 hundred Bernards, I haven't even invented a name for that!" - Professor Malcolm Taylor (DW: Planet Of The Dead)

April/May 2009 Quotes

27th April - 3rd May

"Gallifrey? O, Gallifrey...Her forests are cracked and dead, silver leaves of the Cadonwood trees withered and perished. The skies which once danced with lights - purple and green and brilliant yellow - now broil, heavy with the stinking exhalations of the charnel-house." Rassilon to the Doctor (BFA: Neverland)

4th May - 10th May

"Bloody Torchwood" (TW: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)

11th May - 17th May

"You're coming a bit to close to the 1980s"

"What am i going to do? Put a dent in them?"

"Well, Someone did!" The Doctor to Donna (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem)

18th May - 24th May

"You know, Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." -Third Doctor to Jo Grant (DW: Terror of the Autons)

25th May - 31st May

The Doctor: "I need salt! I need something salty!"
Donna: "What about this?"
The Doctor: "What is it?"
Donna: "Salt!"
The Doctor: "That's too salty!" (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

June 2009 Quotes

1st June - 7th June

"Humans on a bus, always blaming me." - The Doctor (DW: Planet of the Dead)

8th - 14th June

"When in a cliffhanging situation always go for the cliché, that's my motto." - Evelyn Smythe (BFA: Medicinal Purposes)

15th - 21st June

"Don't tell me that behind the rest of these doors you've got Napoleon, Churchill and Alexander the Great? Because even for the Daleks that would be an enormous triumph of camp over common sense." Bernice Summerfield mocking a Dalek plot (BFBS: Death to the Daleks)

22nd June - 28th June

Frobisher: "Last week I was hired to find a missing cat."
The Doctor: "Ah, well done. Did you find it?"
Frobisher:"Eventually. It was a very elusive cat."

- Frobisher and The Doctor discussing the former's career as a PI (BFA: The Maltese Penguin)

June/July 2009 Quotes

29th June - 5th July

"Now they've all gone. They've all gone. None of them could understand. Not even my little Susan. Or Vicki. And as for Barbara and Chetterton — Chesterton — they were all too impatient to get back to their own time. And now: Steven. Perhaps I should go home, back to my own planet. But I can't. I can't." (DW: The Massacre)

6th July - 12th July

• Jamie: "Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?"
  The Doctor: "Yes, Jamie, I believe I have."
  Jamie: "What are you going to do?"
  The Doctor: "Bung a rock at it"- The Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon (DW: The Abominable Snowmen)

13th - 19th July

"It seems that I'm some kind of a galactic yo-yo!" -The Doctor (DW: The Claws of Axos)

20th - 26th July

"Careful... I might explode." - The Doctor to a Cyberman as he shoves him. (DW: Revenge of the Cybermen)

July / August 2009

27th July - 2nd August

"Oh, yes, you mostly went hands-free didn't you. It's 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.'" - The Tenth Doctor after asking the Fifth Doctor if he wants to use his sonic screwdriver (DW: Time Crash)

3rd August - 9th August

The Doctor: "At last! I control everything. You are my pawns to do with as I please. You have no choice but to bend to my whim. I own you. I am your creator. And I can be your destroyer!"

Mel: "Oh, Doctor, stop being so melodramatic."

The Doctor: "Mel, am I not permitted an occasional moment of melodrama?"

Mel: "Yes, but it's only a game of Monopoly^®." (BFA: The One Doctor)

10th August - 16th August

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, 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 and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. come on Ace, we've got work to do." The Doctor to Ace (DW: Survival)

17th August - 23rd August

"I once convinced my most hated enemy that I was half-Human with nothing more than a wide-eyed expression, a couple of words, and a half-broken chameleon arch. Compared to that, this'll be a doddle."

— the Eighth Doctor trying to inspire his temporary, Malmooth companion, Chantir, to join him in a prison break. (IDW: The Forgotten)