Tardis:Quote of the Week nominations/QotW Archive

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February 2010

1st February - 7th February

The Doctor: "You can't really go on calling yourself Morbius. There's very little of Morbius left! Why don't you think of another name? Potpourri would be appropriate!"

Sarah Jane Smith: "Or how about Chop Suey?"

The Doctor: "Yes, that's it! Chop Suey, the galactic emperor!" (TV: The Brain of Morbius)

8th February - 14th February

"Back in the Time War Rassilon! Back into hell!" - The Doctor (TV: The End of Time)

15th February - 21st February

No votes for quote theme this week, previous week's quote carried over to next week

22nd - 28th February

"A Time Lord? Two Time Lords! No, wait...The same Time Lord!" - Omega (TV: The Three Doctors)

March 2010

1st March - 7th March

The Doctor: "What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam?!"

Time Lord: "Oh, come, Doctor. Not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size." (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)

8th March - 14th March 2010

Emperor Constantine: "It is true that I desire peace within the church, but that is not a selfish wish. It is what the church needs. She cannot be always fighting, ripped apart by squabbles from within. She must be strong. Unified. One church. As the Lord has told us." (AUDIO: The Council of Nicaea)

15th March - 21st March 2010

"My Time and Space machine! TARDIS!" - Dr. Who (Movies: Dr. Who and the Daleks)

22nd March - 28th March 2010

Jo Grant: "Oh, I see, you're both Time Lords!"

Second Doctor: "Well, quite. Well...not quite..."

Jo Grant: "Oh..."

Second Doctor: "Not...not just Time Lords, we're the same Time Lord."

Third Doctor: "Now, please, you're only confusing my assistant. Jo, it's all quite simple: I am he and he is me!"

Jo Grant: "And we are all together, goo goo g'joob?"

Second Doctor: "Hmm?"

Third Doctor: "What?"

Jo Grant: "It's a song by The Beatles."

Second Doctor: "Oh, how does it go?" (TV: The Three Doctors)

March 2010 - April 2010

29th March - 4th April

Adelaide Brooke: "State your name, rank and intention."

The Doctor: "The Doctor. Doctor. Fun..." - (TV: The Waters of Mars)

5th April - 11th April

"Legs. I've still got legs. Good. Arms. Hands. Ooh fingers, lots of fingers. Ears, yes. Eyes, two. Nose. I've had worse. Chin, Blimey. Hair... I'm a girl! No! No... I'm not a girl. And still not ginger! And something else...something important, I'm, I'm, I'm (loud explosion) Ha! Crashing! Ha-ha! Whoo-hoo-hoo! Geronimo!" - The Doctor (TV: The End of Time)

12th April - 18th April

"Oh, no, of course. You mostly went hands-free didn't you? Like, "Hey, I'm the Fifth Doctor. I can save the universe using a kettle and some string! And look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable!" - Tenth Doctor to the Fifth Doctor (TV: Time Crash)

19th April - 25th April

"It's ages since we’ve seen our planet. It's quite like Earth... but at night the sky is a burnt orange, and the leaves on the trees are bright silver." - Susan Foreman (TV: The Sensorites)

April - May 2010

26th April - 2nd May

Zadek: "You can't trust androids, you know."

The Doctor: "It's funny, you know. That's what some androids say about people."

Zadek: "What?"

The Doctor: "Anyway, how can you possibly be frightened of something that goes 'Pfft!' if it short circuits?" (TV: The Androids of Tara)

3rd May - 9th May

"You really believe in a man who has helped to save the world twice, with the power to change his physical appearance? An alien who travels though time and space, in a police box?" - Liz Shaw (TV: Spearhead from Space)

10th May - 16th May

"I saw last night that Great Britain has enemies beyond imagination, and we must defend our borders on all sides. I propose an institute, to investigate these strange happenings and to fight them. I am calling it Torchwood. The Torchwood Institute. And if this Doctor should return then he should beware, because Torchwood will be waiting!" - Queen Victoria (TV: [[Tooth and Claw])

17th May - 23rd May

Fifth Doctor: "You remembered."

Tenth Doctor: "Because you will remember."

Fifth Doctor: "You remembered being me, watching you doing that. You only knew what to do because I saw you do it."

Tenth Doctor: "Wibbly wobbly..."

Fifth and Tenth Doctors: "...timey wimey!" (TV: Time Crash)

24th May - 30th May

"I DEMAND TO SEE WHOEVER'S IN CHARGE OF THIS SHIP!!!" - Tegan Jovanka (TV: Logopolis)

May - June 2010

31st May - 6th June

Martha Jones: "And why are you telling them that?"

The Doctor: "This lot's still got one foot in the Dark Ages. If I tell them the truth they'll panic and think it's witchcraft."

Martha: "Okay, what was it then?"

The Doctor: "Witchcraft." (TV: The Shakespeare Code)

7th May - 13th June

"The first studio I went to (as production unit manager) was Talons of Weng Chiang, and I was about to take over from Chris D'Oyly-John... and it frightened the life out of me... I mean, to be in the gallery watching Talons of Weng-Chiang recorded. I thought, my God, what have I let myself in for here? I'm never going to be able to manage this. And Chris D'Oyly-John said, 'Well don't worry. It's not always like this. It's usually far worse'." - John Nathan-Turner (BBV: The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond)

14th June - 20th June

Cloned Martha: "When did you know?"

The Doctor: "About you? Oh, right from the start. Reduced iris contraction, slight thinning of the hair follicles on the left temple and, frankly you smell. You might as well have worn a t-shirt saying 'clone'." (TV: The Poison Sky)

21st June - 27th June

"Can we have reached the Place of Perfection so soon?" - Katarina (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)

June - July 2010

28th June - 4th July

"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" - Tenth Doctor (TV: The Sound of Drums)

5th July - 11th July

The Doctor: "Is there an airport?"

Amy Pond: "No."

The Doctor: "A nuclear power station?"

Amy: "Aha, no."

The Doctor: "Even just a little one?"

Amy: "Nope." - (TV: The Eleventh Doctor)

12th July - 18th July

Polly: "Well, there must be something we can do!"

Kirsty McLaren:"We can but mourn." (Kirsty begins to cry.)

Polly: "Crying's no good. Have you still got breath to run? Come on! We're going to create a diversion!" - (TV: The Highlanders)

19th July - 25th July

Kublai Kahn and the Doctor are playing high-stakes backgammon.

Kublai Khan: "Oh, is that our reckoning?"

The Doctor: "Ah, yes it is, sire, yes."

Khan: "What do we owe?"

The Doctor: "Oh, thirty-five elephants with ceremonial bridles, trappings, brocades and pavillions; four thousand white stallions and twenty-five tigers."

Khan: "That's not too bad, so far."

The Doctor: "And the sacred tooth of Buddha which Polo brought over from India."

Khan: "Oh, that? What else — what more?"

The Doctor: "I . . . I'm very much afraid all the commerce from Burma for one year, sire."

Khan's wife is heard approaching.

Khan: "Oh, the Empress! Hide it! Hide it!"

Empress: "You're not wagering are you? You know how it affects your gout."

July - August 2010

26th July - 1st August

"...Looks like two time zones are at war at the heart of the TARDIS. That's a paradox. It could blow a hole in the space time continuum the size of... Well, actually, the exact size of Belgium." - The Doctor (TV: Time Crash)

2nd August - 8th August

"It's rude to point, you know. Especially with a gun." - Zoe Heriot (TV: The Space Pirates)

9th August - 15th August

"I am whatever I am made to be. This time Lady Peinforte called me Nemesis, so I am retribution." - Nemesis (TV: Silver Nemesis)

16th August - 22nd August

"What's most likely to set Doctor Who fans at each other's throats? If anything can, 'canon' can . . . I can’t think of any other fandom that assumes they have a canon when nobody has ever told them that they do. Especially since our show itself declares that it doesn’t now have, and probably never did have, a canon." (Cornell, Paul. "Canonicity in Doctor Who". paulcornell.com. 10th February 2007.)

23rd - 29th August

The Celestial Toymaker: "The last time you were here I hoped you'd stay long enough for a game, but you hardly had time to turn around."

The Doctor: "And very wise I was, too." - (TV: The Celestial Toymaker)

August - September 2010

30th August - 5th September

Emperor Dalek: "We are near success. Only one thing remains to be solved. The problem of metal fatigue. Space travel means heat far stronger than our casings can stand."

Zeg: "That is not so . . . I have invented metalert! A substance stronger than the sun's heat. With my secret we can conquer space — but I must be emperor!"

Emperor: "You dare challenge my authority? Guards, destroy him!" (COMIC: Duel of the Daleks)

6th September - 12th September

"Wrong. Wrong. Bit right, mostly wrong. I love museums." - The Doctor (TV: The Time of Angels)

13th September - 19th September

No quotes submitted, topic was Emily Winter.

20th September - 26th September

The Doctor: "Come on Amy, I'm a normal bloke. Tell me what normal blokes do."

Amy Pond: "They watch telly, they play football, they go down the pub."

The Doctor: "I could do those things. I don't, but I could." (TV: The Lodger)

September - October 2010

27th September - 3rd October

"Two hearts! Binary vascular system - oh, I am so going to patent this!" - Henry van Statten (TV: Dalek)

4th October - 10th October

Axos: "Data confirms space/time travel possible using additional power from complex. You see, Doctor, we can call upon the additional power of the complex whenever we need it."

The Doctor: "How? You can't just walk in there and take it!"

Axos: "On the contrary, Doctor. We can." (TV: The Claws of Axos)

11th October - 17th October

Amy Pond: "Shall I run and get the manual?

The Doctor: "You can't. I threw it into a supernova."

Amy: "You threw the manual into a supernova? Why?"

The Doctor: "Because I disagreed with it. Stop talking to me when I'm cross!" (TV: Amy's Choice)

18th October - 24th October

"The Wirrn will spare your lives ... but leave the sleepers for us." - Noah/The Swarm Leader (TV: The Ark in Space)

25th - 31st October

No quotes submitted, topic was Nyssa.

November 2010

1st November - 7th November

The Doctor: "This man you're marrying, what's his name?"

Donna Noble: "Lance."

The Doctor: "Good luck, Lance."

Donna: "Oye! No stupid martian is going to stop me from getting married. To hell with you!"

The Doctor: "I'm... I'm not, I'm not from Mars..." (TV: The Runaway Bride)

8th November - 14th November

The Doctor, talking to the Shalka inside the TARDIS: "I'm the Doctor. Hello. Hello, hello, hello. And that's the Master, who I see isn't holding on to anything. And this —"

The Doctor flips a switch on the TARDIS console; which opens the TARDIS doors, and sucks the Shalka out.

The Doctor: " —is a black hole. Bye!" (WEB: Scream of the Shalka)

15th November - 21st November

"Why are they fighting with such old-fashioned things like barbed wire and land mines if they can build something like that?" - Harry Sullivan; upon seeing the Kaled Dome. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)

22nd November - 28th November

"You're a time traveller now Amy. It changes the way you see the universe, forever. Good isn't it?" - The Doctor (TV: Flesh and Stone)

November - December 2010

29th November - 5th December

Megara 1: "We are justice machines!"

Megara 2: "Judge."

Megara 1: "Jury."

Megara 2: "Executioner."

Megara 1: "We cannot be called on to give evidence!"

The Doctor: "Why not?!" (TV: The Stones of Blood)

6th December - 12th December

The Doctor (to Victoria Waterfield): "Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing. Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing." (TV: Tomb of the Cybermen)

13th December - 19th December

The Doctor: "That would involve the TARDIS going back into E-Space."

Nyssa: "The Doctor's right it would be very dangerous."

Adric: "I could plot a course."

The Doctor: "How do you calculate negative co-ordinates?"

Adric: "I have have mathematical skill."

The Doctor: "It would also involve passing through the CVE! Now you can't calculate random coordinates."

Adric: "The Monitor on Logopolis indicated that they were not random."

The Doctor: "You do not have the Monitor's skill, Adric and even if you did I am not going back into E-Space!" (TV: Earthshock)

20th December - 26th December

"Hello I'm the Tenth Doctor, Happy Easter!" - The Doctor (TV: Planet of the Dead)

December 2010 - January 2011

27th December 2010 - 2nd January 2011

Mr Smith: I am receiving a communication from the Earth-bound ships. They have a message for the human race.

Sarah Jane Smith: Put it through. Let's hear it.

Transmission: EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

Jack Harkness: No. Oh, no!

Gwen Cooper: What is it? Who are they? Do you know them, Jack?!

Sarah Jane Smith: (whispering) No.

Jack: There's nothing I can do. I'm sorry, we're dead. (TV: The Stolen Earth)

4th January 2011 - 9th January 2011

Narrator: (Of the Eighth Doctor) "He likes John and Gillian's world very much, villains are naughty, not evil. People never die and promises are never broken. It's a place where all the endings are happy ones." (COMIC: The Land of Happy Endings)

10th - 16th January

No quotes nominated, theme was The One Doctor.

17th - 23rd January

No quotes nominated theme was Bandrils.

24th January - 30th January

No quotes nominated theme was Krotons.

January - February 2011

31st January - 6th February

"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." - The Doctor (TV: The Long Game)

7th February - 13th February

Adam Colby: "Are you saying that about twelve million years ago, on a nameless planet which no longer exists, evolution went up a blind alley? Natural selection turned back on itself, and a creature evolved which prospered by absorbing the energy wavelengths of life itself? It ate life, all life, including that of its own kind?"

The Doctor: "Yes. In other words, the Fendahl. Then the Time Lords decided to destroy the entire planet, and hid the fact from posterity. They're not supposed to do that sort of thing, you know." - (TV: Image of the Fendahl)

14th February - 20th February

"You don't have celery do you? Great restorative properties.." - Eleventh Doctor to Malohkeh. (TV: Cold Blood)

21st February - 27th February

Eighth Doctor: "I'm just not very keen on on hospitals, that's all."

Samantha Jones: (laughs) "Midwife dropped you on your head as a baby? That would explain a lot."

The Doctor: "Not exactly. But I suppose you could call it a birth trauma." (PROSE: Kursaal)

February - March 2011

28th February - 6th March

No quotes nominated theme was Calcula.

7th March - 13th March

"All right, I confess! I confess! I confess to you being a bigger idiot than I thought." - The Doctor (TV: The Deadly Assassin)

14th March - 20th March

The Doctor: Your crew, where are they they?

Clockwork Droid: We did not have the parts.

The Doctor: There should have been over fifty people on your ship. Where did they go?

Clockwork Droid: We did not have the parts.

The Doctor: Fifty people don't just disappear. Wh-...oh, you didn't have the parts, so you used the crew.

21st March - 27th March

"No one's ever meant to have that power. If a Time Lord did that, he'd become a god, a vengeful god. But she was human. Everything she did was so human. She brought you back to life. But she couldn't control it, she brought you back forever. That's something, I suppose. The final act of the Time War was life." - the Tenth Doctor (TV: Utopia)

March - April

28th March - 3rd April

Maria Jackson: So, Clyde fights Slitheens and Gorgons, and that's ok with you, but a bit of skateboarding, and, woah...

Sarah Jane Smith: I know! Oh, shame on me. Well, I've changed since I met you lot, I've gone all mumsy! (TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)

4th April - 10th April

Jack Harkness: "Come back with me. I've got somewhere nice and big where you can fly around."

Ianto Jones: So you'll let the pterodactyl in and not me?!

Jack: "I need a guard dog."

Ianto: "I could be that!" (TV: Fragments)

11th April - 17th April

Sixth Doctor: "We have two advanced computing teams, a ziggurat in Battersea, and an imminent Millennium. Add to this potent brew a millionaire philanthropist with an unhealthy interest in a library of the arcane and Mel's worried friend, and it has all the hallmarks of a first class mystery."

Mel: (laughs) "That sounded like the back cover blurb to a very bad paperback, Doctor."

(PROSE: Millennial Rites)

18th April - 24th April

Kera: "The atmosphere of our world had changed. It was no longer suitable for humans. The levels of carbon monoxide and lead . . . we grew sick. Our children were stillborn, or deformed. We were dying out. We were living our lives for the automobiles. We would spend every waking hour building them, servicing them, feeding them. And, as the years passed, we would spend more and more time inside the automobiles, driving to and from work. And that's when we realised."

Fitz: Realised what?

Kera: "Estebol was no longer our world. It was theirs. The cars had taken over." (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows)

April - May

27th April - 1st May

The Doctor: "It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge room inside; what's that about? Let me explain..."

Rory Williams: "It's another dimension."

The Doctor: It's basically another dimensi... what?"

Rory: After what happened with Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories. FTL travel, parallel universes..."

The Doctor: "I like the bit when someone says "It's bigger on the inside!" I always look forward to that." (TV: The Vampires of Venice)

2nd May - 8th May

The Doctor: "It's a gift from the TARDIS: telepathic field. It gets inside your head, translates."

=: "Inside my brain."

The Doctor: "Well, in a good way."

Rose: "Your machine gets inside my head. It gets inside my head and changes my mind and you didn't even ask."

The Doctor: "I didn't think about it like that ..." (TV: The End of the World)

9th May - 15th May

No quote nominated quote subject was The Paradise of Death.

16th May - 22nd May

No valid votes, subject was Mr Smith.

23rd May - 29th May

Quotes submitted not about subject, subject was vampires.

May - June

30th May - 5th June

Dickens: "Let me say this first: I'm not entirely without a sense of humor, but -"

The Doctor: "Dickens?"

Dickens: "Yes ..."

The Doctor: "Charles Dickens?"

Dickens: "Yes!"

The Doctor: "THE Charles Dickens?"

The Coachman: "Shall I remove the gentleman, sir?"

The Doctor: "Charles Dickens!!! You're brilliant, you are! Completely one hundred percent brilliant! I've read them all - Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and what's that other one - the one with the ghost?"

Dickens: "A Christmas Carol?"

The Doctor: "No, no, no, the one with the trains - The Signalman, that's it, terrifying! The best short story ever written! You're a genius!"

The Coachman: "You want me to get rid of him, sir?"

Dickens: "Aah, no, I think he can stay ..." (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

6th June - 12th June

Automatons: "Give us sun and air."

Rani Chandra: "Wait a minute, not sun and air, son and heir!"

Clyde Langer: "What you sayin'?"

Rani: "The son and the heir. Like Prince Charles. He's the son and the heir of the queen."

Clyde: "Oh, you can definitely have Prince Charles! Take Camilla too if you want." (TV: The Empty Planet)

13th June - 19th June

No quotes nominated this week, quote subject was Doctor Who directors of photography.

20th June - 26th June

No quotes nominated this week, quote subject was television series from the real world.

June - July

27th June - 3rd July

Eighth Doctor: "We fought the Montana Republican Militia together. They were using thermosystronic weapons they bought from the Selachians, they were going to try and take over Canada ... whatever happened to all those thermosystron bombs?"

General Tchike: "You blew them up."

Eighth Doctor: "Oh yes. That was it." (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

4th July - 10th July

"Woah, woah woah. We're in the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world. Best take it slow..." - Eleventh Doctor (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)