Doctor Who
Saturdays 9:00 PMDoctor Who Quotes
The Doctor: I told you, you don’t steer the TARDIS, you reason with it.
Bill: How?
The Doctor: Unsuccessfully, most of the time.
Bill: Doesn’t anybody ever notice the TARDIS?
The Doctor: Your species hardly notices anything.
Bill: How is *that* a screwdriver?
The Doctor: In a very broad sense!
Bill: Oh, and how’s it sonic?
The Doctor: It makes a noise!
If you care so much, tell me how many people you’ve seen die.
Bill
Do you want to help me? Or do you want to stand here stamping your foot? Because let me tell you, I’m two thousand years old. And I’ve never had the time for the luxury of outrage.
The Doctor
Always remember, Bill -- passion fights, but *reason* wins.
The Doctor
Human progress isn’t measured by industry. It’s measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. That boy who died on the river, that boy’s value is *your* value.
The Doctor
Never underestimate the collective human ability to overlook the inexplicable.
The Doctor
Once, long ago, a fisherman caught a magic haddock. The haddock offered him three wishes in return for its life. The fisherman said, “I’d like for my son to come home from the war. And a hundred pieces of gold.” The problem is, the magic haddock, like robots, don’t think like people. The fisherman’s son came home from the war, in a coffin. And the king sent a hundred gold pieces in recognition of his heroic death. The fisherman had one wish left. What do you think he wished for? Some people say he should have wished for an infinite series of wishes, but if your city proves anything, it is that granting all your wishes is not a good idea. [...] In fact, the fisherman wished he hadn’t wished the first two wishes.
The Doctor
The Doctor: What’s the opposite of a massacre?
Bill: What?
The Doctor: In my experience? A lecture.
Bill: Where are you going?
The Doctor: No idea. But if I look purposeful, they’ll think I’ve got a plan. If they think I’ve got a plan, at least they won’t try to think of a plan themselves!
You don’t call the helpline because you *are* the helpline.
Bill
