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Doctor Who

British spellings permitted here, because, you know.

Rose: What's the emergency?
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognised colour for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. 
	Oh, the misunderstandings! All those "red alerts," all that 
	dancing.
					_The Empty Child_

"1941. Right now, not very far from here the German war machine is rolling
 up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes.
 Nothing can stop it, nothing until one tiny, damp little island says
 'No. No, not here.' A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing. The lot
 of you."
					_The Empty Child_

"Who looks at a screwdriver and goes 'that could be a little more 
 sonic'?"
					-Captain Jack, _The Doctor Dances_

Dalek: But you have no weapons! No defences! No plan!
The Doctor: Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death?
					_Bad Wolf_

"Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek
 homeworld? The Oncoming Storm."
					_The Parting of the Ways_

"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."
					-Rose, _The Parting of the Ways_

"I wish I’d never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward."
					_The Parting of the Ways_

The Doctor: Must be a spatial temporal hyperlink.
Mickey: What's that?
The Doctor: No idea. Just made it up. Didn't want to say 'magic door'.
					_The Girl in the Fireplace_

"But the thing is... but what I wanted to say is, you know when you're a
 kid, they tell you it's all 'grow up, get a job, get married, get a
 house, have a kid' and that's it. Nah. The truth is the world is so much
 stranger than that, it's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much
 better."
					-Elton, _Love & Monsters_

Donna: Promise me one thing. Find someone.
The Doctor: I don’t need anyone.
Donna: Yes, you do. 'Cause sometimes I think you need someone to stop you.
					_The Runaway Bride_

"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap
 tricks."
					_Smith and Jones_

The Doctor: I named her. The power of the name. That's old magic.
Martha: But there's no such thing as magic.
The Doctor: Well, it's a different sort of science. You lot, you chose 
	mathematics. Given the right string of numbers, the right 
	equation, you  could split the atom. Carrionites use words 
	instead.
					_The Shakespeare Code_

"Just shifts your perception a tiny little bit. Doesn't make us invisible,
 just unnoticed. Oh, I know what it's like! It's like, it's like when you
 fancy someone and they don't even know you exist. That's what it's like."
                                        _The Sound of Drums_

"I'm The Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the
 constellation of Kasterborous. I'm nine Hundred and three Years Old and
 I'm the man who's going to save your lives and all six billion people on
 the planet below."
					_Voyage of the Damned_

The Doctor: Still lost. I thought you were going to travel the world?
Donna: Easier said than done. It's like, I had that one day with you and I 
	was gonna change. I was gonna do so much. Then I woke up the next
	morning. Same old life. It's like you were never there. And I 
	tried. I did try.
					_Partners in Crime_

Donna: But that's what you do. You're the Doctor. You save people.
The Doctor: Not this time. Pompeii is a fixed point in history. What 
	happens happens. There is no stopping it.
					_The Fires of Pompeii_

The Doctor: Some things are fixed, some things are in flux. Pompeii is
	fixed.
Donna: But how do you know which is which?
The Doctor: Because that is how I see the universe. Every waking second, I
	can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. It's the 
	burden of a Time Lord, Donna.
					_The Fires of Pompeii_

[Looking down on Earth from orbit.]
"It was never big enough for me."
					-Luke Rattigan,
					_The Sontaran Stratagem_

"Not easy, is it? Being clever. You look at the world and you connect
 things. Random things. You think 'why can't anyone else see it?' The rest
 of the world is so slow."
					_The Sontaran Stratagem_

"It's alright for you. You can just come and go but some of us have got to
 stay behind. So I've got to work from the inside and, by staying inside,
 maybe I stand a chance of making them better."
					-Martha, _The Sontaran Stratagem_

"Attention all troops! The Sontarans might think of us as primitive, as 
 does every passing species with an axe to grind. They make a mockery of 
 our weapons, our soldiers, our ideals. But no more. From this point on, 
 it stops. From this point on, the people of Earth fight back and we show 
 them. We show the warriors of Sontar what the human race can do."
					-Colonel Mace, _The Poison Sky_

"He saves planets, rescues civilisations and defeats terrible creatures.
 And runs a lot. Seriously, there is an outrageous amount of running
 involved."
					-Donna, _The Doctor's Daughter_

"I'm sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? You talk all the time
 but you don't say anything."
					-Donna, _The Doctor's Daughter_

"You know when you see a photograph of someone you know but it's from
 years before you knew them? It's like they're not quite... finished.   
 They're not done yet. Well, yes, the Doctor's here. He came when I
 called, just like he always does. But not my Doctor. Now, my Doctor...
 I've seen whole armies turn and run away and he'd just swagger off back
 to his TARDIS and open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor
 in the TARDIS. Next stop, everywhere."
					-Prof. River Song,
					_Forest of the Dead_

Donna: Are you saying bees are alien?
The Doctor: Don't be so daft. Not all of them.
					_The Stolen Earth_

"You know, you act like such a lonely man. But look at you! You've got the
 biggest family on Earth."
					-Sarah Jane Smith, _Journey's End_

"The aristocracy survives for a reason: we're ready for anything."   
					-Lady Christine,
					_Planet of the Dead_ 

Adelaide: Is there nothing you can't do?
Doctor: Not anymore.
					_Waters of Mars_

"It is said that in the final days of planet Earth, everyone had bad 
 dreams."
					_The End of Time_

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