Tardis:Quote of the Week nominations/QotW Archive

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Quotes Prior to Policy
The following are previous Quotes of the Week that were displayed prior to the nomination and voting policy.

''"Believe me, Doctor, the place is impregnable." "Never cared much for the word 'impregnable'. Sound a bit too much like 'unsinkable'." "What's wrong with 'unsinkable'?" "Nothing, as the iceberg said to the Titanic." - The Brigadier, the Doctor, and Harry (DW: Robot'')

"Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" The Doctor (DW: ''Aliens of London) "Have you heard of the BBC? Marvellous people, all of them. Well, all right, some of them are a bit strange and they drink too much tea, which is rich, coming from me." - the Doctor to the Jabberwock (BFA: Zagreus)

"The Medusa Cascade, I came here when I was just a kid, 90 years old." - The Doctor (DW: The Stolen Earth)

"Jenkins, chap with wings there, five rounds rapid." - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (DW: The Dæmons)

"Is that really the Doctor? He seems such a nice old man." - The Doctor (DW: Shada)

4-9 February
"I say what a wonderful butler, he's so violent!" -The Doctor (DW: City of Death)

10-16 February
''"Oooh... Defrost your very own Davros!" -The Doctor (BFA: Terror Firma)

17-22 February
"So that's what it's like inside? Ugh, it looks like someone threw up a squid dinner!" - Lucie Miller's thoughts on the appearance of a Kaled mutant. (BFA: Blood of the Daleks)

23-28 February
"One day I shall come back, yes I shall come back! Until then there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine." The Doctor to Susan (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

2-8 March
"That is the dematerializing control. And that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy! Now please stop bothering me." - The Doctor (DW: The Time Meddler)

9-15 March
"If you're going to sit there wallowing in self pity, I'll bite your nose" - The Doctor (DW: The Brain of Morbius)

16-22 March
"Victory should be naked!" ― Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen (DW: Aliens of London)

23-29 March
"This is my final victory, Doctor, I have shown you yourself." Davros. Journey's End

30th March - 5th April
"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below! You got a problem with that?" (DW: Voyage of the Damned)

6th April - 12th April
"Sorry whats The Void?"
 * "The dead space some people call it hell."
 * "So let me get this straight you're going to send the Cybermen and the Daleks to hell, man I told you he was good." Mickey Smith to The Doctor (DW: Doomsday)

13th April - 19th April
''Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink. Good luck. - The Doctor (DW: Blink'')

20th April - 26th April
"We've gone way past 100 hundred Bernards, I haven't even invented a name for that!" - Professor Malcolm Taylor (DW: Planet Of The Dead)

27th April - 3rd May
"Gallifrey? O, Gallifrey...Her forests are cracked and dead, silver leaves of the Cadonwood trees withered and perished. The skies which once danced with lights - purple and green and brilliant yellow - now broil, heavy with the stinking exhalations of the charnel-house." Rassilon to the Doctor (BFA: Neverland)

4th May - 10th May
"Bloody Torchwood" (TW: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)

11th May - 17th May

 * ''"You're coming a bit to close to the 1980s"
 * "What am i going to do? Put a dent in them?"
 * "Well, Someone did!" The Doctor to Donna (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem)

18th May - 24th May
"You know, Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." -Third Doctor to Jo Grant (DW: Terror of the Autons)

25th May - 31st May
The Doctor: "I need salt! I need something salty!" Donna: "What about this?" The Doctor: "What is it?" Donna: "Salt!" The Doctor: "That's too salty!" (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

1st June - 7th June
"Humans on a bus, always blaming me." - The Doctor (DW: Planet of the Dead)

8th - 14th June
"When in a cliffhanging situation always go for the cliché, that's my motto." - Evelyn Smythe (BFA: Medicinal Purposes)

15th - 21st June
"Don't tell me that behind the rest of these doors you've got Napoleon, Churchill and Alexander the Great? Because even for the Daleks that would be an enormous triumph of camp over common sense." Bernice Summerfield mocking a Dalek plot (BFBS: Death to the Daleks)

22nd June - 28th June

 * Frobisher: "Last week I was hired to find a missing cat." The Doctor: "Ah, well done. Did you find it?" Frobisher:"Eventually. It was a very elusive cat."
 * - Frobisher and The Doctor discussing the former's career as a PI (BFA: The Maltese Penguin)

29th June - 5th July
"Now they've all gone. They've all gone.  None of them could understand.  Not even my little Susan.  Or Vicki.  And as for Barbara and Chetterton — Chesterton — they were all too impatient to get back to their own time.  And now: Steven.  Perhaps I should go home, back to my own planet.  But I can't.  I can't." (DW: The Massacre)

6th July - 12th July

 * Jamie: "Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?" The Doctor: "Yes, Jamie, I believe I have." Jamie: "What are you going to do?" The Doctor: "Bung a rock at it"- The Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon (DW: The Abominable Snowmen)

13th - 19th July
"It seems that I'm some kind of a galactic yo-yo!" -The Doctor (DW: The Claws of Axos)

20th - 26th July
"Careful... I might explode." - The Doctor to a Cyberman as he shoves him. (DW: Revenge of the Cybermen)

27th July - 2nd August
"Oh, yes, you mostly went hands-free didn't you. It's 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.'" - The Tenth Doctor after asking the Fifth Doctor if he wants to use his sonic screwdriver (DW: Time Crash)

3rd August - 9th August

 * The Doctor: "At last! I control everything.  You are my pawns to do with as I please.  You have no choice but to bend to my whim.  I own you. I am your creator.  And I can be your destroyer!"
 * Mel: "Oh, Doctor, stop being so melodramatic."
 * The Doctor: "Mel, am I not permitted an occasional moment of melodrama?"
 * Mel: "Yes, but it's only a game of Monopoly®." (BFA: The One Doctor)

10th August - 16th August
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, the sea's asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. come on Ace, we've got work to do." The Doctor to Ace (DW: Survival)

17th August - 23rd August
"I once convinced my most hated enemy that I was half-Human with nothing more than a wide-eyed expression, a couple of words, and a half-broken chameleon arch. Compared to that, this'll be a doddle."
 * — the Eighth Doctor trying to inspire his temporary, Malmooth companion, Chantir, to join him in a prison break. (IDW: The Forgotten)

24th August - 30th August
"Lots of planets have a North" - Ninth Doctor to Rose Tyler (DW: Rose))

31st August - 6th September
"Did you have to say that? 'There's no turning back?' That's almost as bad as 'Nothing could possibly go wrong' or 'This'll be the best Christmas Walford's ever had.'" The Doctor to Ida Scott (DW: The Impossible Planet)

7th September - 13th September
"It's the 1970s and it's time to get with the program, there's a groovy universe out there." (BFIW: The Land of Wonder)

14th September - 20th September
The Doctor: "Think of your worst nightmare, think of the most repellent disgusting nauseating thing you can possibly imagine, think of pure evil made malignant flesh."
 * Viola Learman: "Is that what it's like?"
 * Doctor: "No, it's a thousand times worse."
 * (BFA: The Time of the Daleks)

21st September - 27th September
Tegan: "That's sadistic!" Cyber-Leader': "No. Scientific."'' - The Cybermen defending their plan to demolish the Earth with a freighter. (DW: Earthshock)

28th September - 4th October
"Oh, speak ancient Martian do you? Know how to address a High Lord correctly, without insulting him? I might not know about Ogri or Lurmans, Doctor, but Martians are my speciality, remember?" Bernice Summerfield to the Doctor (NA: Legacy)

5th October - 11th October
"This is our planet. We were here before mankind." - Silurian (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians)

12th October - 18th October
Harriet: "Harriet Jones, Former Prime Minister" Dalek: "Yes, we know who you are" Harriet: "Oh, you know nothing of any human. And that will be your downfall." - Harriet Jones before her extermination (DW: The Stolen Earth)

19th October - 25th October
"Hello! Okay - New teeth... That's weird... So where was I? Oh that's right - Barcelona!" -The Doctor (DW: The Parting of the Ways)

26th October - 1st November
 The Doctor: "You good dog!"
 * K9: "Affirmative!"

Later...
 * Brother Lassar: "You bad dog!"
 * K9: "Affirmative!" (DW: School Reunion)

2nd November - 8th November
"Don't lie to me! You sacrificed the colourful jester because you needed to be born! Time would have her champion and he was just compost for your blooming. You ran your TARDIS into the Rani's beam joyfully. Hah! Your sixth self hates you for that, he will become the Valeyard for that." - Death speaking with the Doctor. (NA: Love and War)

9th November - 15th November
"This is, er...Koschei, one of my oldest and dearest friends. We were at...school together, you see. Koschei, this is James Robert McCimmon. He and Victoria Waterfield travel with me these days." - The Doctor introducing his companions to Koschei. (MA: The Dark Path)

16th November - 22nd November
"Late twenty-first century...by now, most of the Daleks are scattered around the edges of the Mutters' Spiral, trying to build up a decent galactic powerbase. The ones who got left behind on Skaro are just starting to think about putting together their own little empire. The 'static electricity' phase of the Dalek development, if I'm not mistaken. Still, my Dalek history's always been a bit rusty. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't keep changing all the time." (EDA: Alien Bodies)

23rd November - 29th November
"A parallel space-time continuum," the Master said simply "occupying the same space-time coordinates as this Earth, but in a different dimension. Sideways in time, if you like, rather than forward or back."
 * Benton scratched his head. "You mean some sort of mirror universe, like in that Star Trek episode where Spock had a beard?"
 * The Master sighed. "Succinctly put, Mr Benton." - The Master discussing with the Brigadier and Benton the the Parallel Earth they had travelled to. (PDA: The Face of the Enemy)

30th November - 6th December
"It's obvious he's not lying. He's got an honest face. And he's making tea. The Daleks never made me tea. The Cybermen never made me tea. The Sontarans never-"
 * "All right," Donna shouted. She took a deep breath, then said it again, more calmly. "All right, you've made your point. But I swear, if this tea's poisoned, I'll swing for you." (NDA: Ghosts of India)

7th December - 13th December
"The blue box? That is my vessel. The TARDIS. See the Emperor Dalek. It would dearly love to feed on its energies, just as it now voraciously bleeds its own city of power." He addresses the Emperor Dalek in a clear, confident voice. "You've not been able to crack her open yet, I see. But you're attempting to harness the artron energy that the TARDIS exhales from her fabric...Oh, that numinous effulgence you do not even understand, but crave so much it must hurt you through and through to your rotting core." - The Doctor speaking to the Emperor Dalek and Jomi; a Thal. (TN: The Dalek Factor)

14th December - 20th December
"It's not Ian and Barbara who need rescuing, child. It's history that needs saving from Chesterton's meddling." - The Doctor speaking with Susan (ST: The Last Days)

21st December - 27th December
"Oh and incidentally, a very merry Christmas to all of you at home." - The Doctor (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)

28th December - 3rd January
"This is the millennium, the turn of the century. It's one of my favourite times in Earth's history. You know, I think I've been here more times than I've been on the Titanic" - The Doctor (IDW:The Forgotten)

4th January - 10th January

 * "Behave!" - The Doctor to the TARDIS (DW: The Runaway Bride)

11th January - 17th January
Wilfred: "Oh, and on page 2, be on the lookout for a police box, exactly like the old ones."
 * Minnie: ''"I got locked inside one of them - August bank holiday, 1962."
 * Winston: "Were you misbehaving, Minnie?"
 * Minnie (winking): "I certainly was ..." (DW: The End of Time)

18th January - 24th January
Leela: ''What is he saying, Doctor? I do not understand.''
 * The Doctor: He can't make ends meet. Probably too many economists in the government.
 * Leela: These "taxes"; they are a sacrifice to the Gods?
 * The Doctor: Well, roughly speaking, but paying taxes is much more painful. (DW: The Sun Makers)

25th January - 31st January
Borusa: "As I believe I told you long ago, Doctor, you will never amount to anything in the galaxy while you retain your propensity for vulgar facetiousness."
 * The Doctor: "Yes, sir. You've said that many times, sir. May I go, sir?"
 * Borusa: "Certainly, you may. Preferably, with the utmost expedition." (DW: The Deadly Assassin)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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."

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)