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Quotes archived by year

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!" (DW: The Brain of Morbius)

8th February - 14th February

"Back in the Time War Rassilon! Back into hell!" - The Doctor (DW: 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 (DW: 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." (DW: 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." (BFA: 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?" (DW: 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..." - (DW: 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 (DW: 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 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 (DW: 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 (DW: 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?" (DW: 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 (DW: 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 (DW: [[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!" (DW: Time Crash)

24th May - 30th May

"I DEMAND TO SEE WHOEVER'S IN CHARGE OF THIS SHIP!!!" - Tegan Jovanka (DW: 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." (DW: 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'." (DW: The Poison Sky)

21st June - 27th June

"Can we have reached the Place of Perfection so soon?" - Katarina (DW: 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 (DW: 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." - (DW: 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!" - (DW: 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 (DW: Time Crash)

2nd August - 8th August

"It's rude to point, you know. Especially with a gun." - Zoe Heriot (DW: 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 (DW: 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

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." - (DW: 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!" (TV21: Duel of the Daleks)

6th September - 12th September

"Wrong. Wrong. Bit right, mostly wrong. I love museums." - The Doctor (DW: 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." (DW: 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 (DW: 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." (DW: 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!" (DW: Amy's Choice)

18th October - 24th October

"The Wirrn will spare your lives ... but leave the sleepers for us." - Noah/The Swarm Leader (DW: 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..." (DW: 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. (DW: 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 (DW: 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?!" (DW: 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." (DW: 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!" (DW: Earthshock)

20th December - 26th December

"Hello I'm the Doctor, Happy Easter!" - The Doctor (DW: 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. (DW: The Stolen Earth)

4th January 2011 - 9th January 2011

Narrator: (Of the 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." (DWM: 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 (DW: The Long Game)