There are plenty of great one-liners, monologues, and repartee in Doctor Who. A personal favorite is, “I AM TALKING!” and everything that comes before it.
However, below I’ve selected a number of quotes from the show that not only made good lines, but are sound advice whether you’re flying around the universe in a box, or driving to work in a mini-van. Enjoy.
“Courage isn’t a matter of not being frightened, you know. It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.”
– The Third Doctor
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes.”
– The Fourth Doctor
“One good solid hope is worth a cartload of certainties.”
– The Fourth Doctor
“For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about.”
– The Fifth Doctor
“This is who I am, right here, right now, all right? All that counts is here and now, and this is me!”
– The Ninth Doctor
“Always take a banana to a party, bananas are good!”
– The Tenth Doctor
“Books! The best weapons in the world!”
– The Tenth Doctor
“Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”
— The Tenth Doctor
“Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you’re busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence.”
— The Eleventh Doctor
“Letting it get to you. You know what that’s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.”
— The Eleventh Doctor
“This is one corner… of one country, in one continent, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond.”
– The Eleventh Doctor
“We’re all stories, in the end… just make it a good one, eh?”
– The Eleventh Doctor
“Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard — I can feel it through your hands! There’s so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it’s like rocket fuel. Right now, you could run faster and you could fight harder. You can jump higher than ever in your life. And you are so alert, it’s like you can slow down time. What’s wrong with scared? Scared is a super power! It’s your super power!”
– The Twelfth Doctor
“You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.”
– Rose Tyler
“Together, or not at all”
– Amy Pond
Mr. Pink was a teacher at Clara’s school, soon became her boyfriend, and gave his life in one of the most tragic ways the Whoniverse has to offer.
We first meet Danny at the school he and Clara work at. The story of them flirting with each other is pretty standard. Good looking people pretending to be nervous around other good looking people.
Sure. Rory and Ricky/Mickey had some shining moments, but a lot of the time they were bumbling around and tripped over a solution. Not Pink. He’s an ex-soldier. He gets it done. And when the Doctor tells him what to do, Pink only does what Pink thinks is right.
But Danny Pink does not die a villain. He gains control of the entire Cyberman army just as they were one step away from taking over the Earth. Cyber-Pink orders his new army off of the planet, and saves the world.
Osgood is a semi-regular character on the show who works as a scientist for U.N.I.T.—I’ll get to them later, but let’s just say they’re the Men in Black of the Whoniverse.
What’s interesting about Osgood is she kind of represents a lot of us sitting at home watching the show. She’s a fan of the Doctor.
She’s so much of a fan that she’s always seen with a little Doctor flair, whether it’s a colorful scarf, a particular cardigan, a pair of sneakers, a shirt with question marks on the collar, or a bow tie—bow ties are cool.
There’s really only one reason I wanted to write about the episode Nightmare in Silver. The climax of the story has The Doctor playing an intense game of chess against himself.
Hence the game of chess. The game is for full control.
The Doctor then makes his three moves, which aren’t even related to the game of chess and wins the game.
The episode was written by the legendary Neil Gaiman—another N—a man who’s written in just about every medium out there.
Remember how The Doctor is always touted as the last of his kind? That’s not usually true. There’s another Time Lord that keeps showing up regularly and the name he chose is The Master.
I never understood how evil masterminds get so many henchmen to join their cause, but after watching The Master for a few minutes I was ready to sign up so we could have lunch together and tell stories.
One The Master’s more recent tricks was answering a question I’ve had for a long time. Do time lords have males and females? Are they all male? Do sexes even exist?
The last we saw The Master/Mistress, she was surrounded by angry Daleks, but attempting to tell them she had a new plan, so that’s not the last we’ll see of her.
If you like Doctor Who and video games, then you owe it to yourself and the universe to give LEGO Dimensions a try.
This pack comes with the Doctor (12th), the TARDIS, and K-9. Along with having the supercool figures, it opens a separate part of the game with a Doctor Who storyline.
The TARDIS, which is super fun to fly around crashing into stuff, seems like a simple vehicle at first. But then you can go to the inside of the TARDIS (which is bigger.) And here’s another super cool touch: whichever Doctor you are at the time changes the appearance of the TARDIS! Cool, right?! I know!
Add in the optional character pack that includes Cyberman and a Dalek, and this game is much bigger on the inside.
K-9 is a robot dog invented by a dude named Professor Marius and given to the Fourth Doctor because… I don’t know. Maybe he was delusional and thought the Doctor seemed like a responsible guy.
erhaps if he had more of a personality. He was a bit too much like every other cliché robot to show up in sci-fi shows. Robotic, choppy voice. Unnecessarily pedantic vocabulary. Long explanations that would send almost anyone to that place of glazed over eyes and wandering thoughts.
There’s so much to love about Captain Jack Harkness. He’s cool, charming, immortal, and hits on everything that moves.
Though Jack was once a Time Agent, it was a thing of the past and all his boasting of authority was his attempt at a con. Despite his attempts to trick the Doctor and run away with some kind of valuables, Jack ends up acting like a hero and wiggling his way into our hearts.
Jack’s usually the first one to jump into battle, probably because he knows he can’t be killed, with a witty comment and wink to the closest pretty girl—or guy.
The last time we saw Captain Jack, he eluded to possibly being the 
The Impossible Girl refers to the plucky companion otherwise known as Clara Oswin Oswald. She started out as the companion to a grieving (nearly emo) Tenth Doctor.
They travel to a planet called Trenzalore, where the Doctor will eventually die, and find a future version of the TARDIS. Inside, the console has been replaced by a column of bright white lite. The time stream. An enemy, known as the Great Intelligence, jumps into the timestream claiming it will undo all the Doctor’s history. Clara throws herself in right after.
