Tenth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

You need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up "genocide". You'll find a little picture of me there, and the caption'll read "Over my dead body".

I never would. Have you got that? I... never... would. When you start this new world, this world of Human and Hath, remember that. Make the foundation of this society a man who never would!

The Library. So big it doesn't need a name, just a great big "The".

Ah, I'll be fine. Taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight... What could possibly go wrong?

[positioning the others around the console] Sarah, hold that. Mickey, you hold that. 'Cos you know why this TARDIS is always rattling about the place? Rose: that, there. It's designed to have six pilots and I have to do it single-handed- Martha, keep that level- But not any more! Jack, there you go, steady that. Now we can fly this thing- N-no, Jackie, no, no, not you. Don't touch anything, just... stand back. Like it's meant to be flown! We got the Torchwood rift looped around the TARDIS by Mr Smith. We are gonna fly Planet Earth back home. Right, then, off we go.

It's strange, though. I talk of Cybermen... from the stars... and you don't blink, Mr. Smith.

Ah, don't blink, whatever you do, don't blink, remember that? The blinking and the statues and... Sally and the angels? No?

You're a very odd man.

Mmm... I still am.

I've gone too far. Is this it? My death? Is it time!?

[defiantly] No!

I don't want to go.

Legs! I've still got legs! [kisses one of them.] Good! Arms, hands. Oooh, fingers. Lots of fingers. Ears? Yes. Eyes: two. Nose... I've had worse. Chin—blimey! Hair... [notes length, shocked] I'm a girl! [checks Adam's apple.] No, no! I'm not a girl! [pulls a lock of his hair in front of his eyes and looks at it, annoyed] And still not ginger! There's something else. Something... important, I'm... [taps head, trying to remember] I'm... I'm... [The whole console room shakes, explosions; the Doctor laughs, ecstatic] Ha-ha! CRASHING! [As the burning TARDIS falls to Earth, the Doctor clings to the console, laughing and whooping with glee.] Geronimoooooooooooo!

Did you ever count?

Count what?

How many children there were on Gallifrey that day?

I have absolutely no idea.

How old are you now?

Uh, I don't know, I lose track. Twelve hundred and something, I think, unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age, that's how old I am.

Four hundred years older than me and in all that time you never even wondered how many there were. You never once counted?

Tell me, what would be the point?

[angry at The Eleventh Doctor] Two point four seven billion!

You did count!

[to The Eleventh Doctor] You forgot! Four hundred years, is that all it takes?!

I moved on!

Where?! Where can you be now that you can forget something like that?!

Spoilers.

No, no, no. For once, I would like to know where I'm going.

No, you really wouldn't.

...you're not seriously suggesting we change our own history.

We change history all the time! I'm suggesting something far worse.

What, exactly?

Gentlemen. I have had four hundred years to think about this... I've changed my mind!

General, we have a plan.

At the moment, we should point out it is a fairly terrible plan.

And it almost certainly won't work.

I was fine with "fairly terrible".

Sorry, just thinking out loud.

Just about ready to do it.

Ready to do what?

We're going to freeze Gallifrey.

I'm sorry, what?

Using our TARDISes, we're gonna freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time.

You know, like those stasis cubes? A single moment in time held in a parallel pocket universe.

Except we're going to do it to a whole planet.

And all the people on it.

What? Even if that were possible—which it isn't—why would you do such a thing?

Because the alternative is burning.

And I've seen that.

And I never want to see it again.

We'd be lost in another universe. Frozen in a single moment. We'd have nothing.

You would have hope. And right now that is exactly what you don't have.

It's delusional! Why, the calculations alone would take hundreds of years!

Oh, hundreds and hundreds.

But don't worry. I started a very long time ago.

Calling the War Council of Gallifrey: This is the Doctor!

You might say, I've been doing this all my lives.

Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?

[waves hands] Yes. No. [turns back to the guards] I demand to be incarcerated in the Tower immediately with my co-conspirators, Sandshoes and Grandad.

Grandad?!

They're not sandshoes!

Yes, they are!

Well, gentlemen, it has been a honour and a privilege.

Likewise.

[pointedly] Doctor.

And if I grow to be half the man that you are, [turns to Clara] Clara Oswald, I shall be happy indeed.

That's right. Aim high.

I won't remember this, will I?

The time streams are out of sync. You can't retain it, no.

So I won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey, rather than burn it. And I have to live with that. [His mood brightens slightly.] But for now, for this moment...I am the Doctor again. Thank you.

You wanna hear a story?

Don't give him more power.

Really short, really short. You know Hemingway. I saw some of his books back there. I met him. I wanted to see how good he was, so I challenged him. "Hemy, baby, write me the shortest story you can". He wrote it in six words. Short as hell! Do you wanna hear mine? I'm born. I die. I'm born.

You are giving me power. But how? I am not connected to you!

No, the engine is connected to me. My stories, my voice. Look. On!

...in the universe can do what we're doing.

Just this once...

I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord.

When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die!

When people need help, I never refuse.

I am definitely not the man I was.

My body is like a barbershop. All of them inside, telling their stories, bickering! I... will not... fail them!

[laughs] You told a never-ending story, and gave me never-ending power!

He's taken out a third of the engine. You can't process that power. Your engine could overload and explode! We'll all be sucked into space!

You will not do that. You will not! No. No! Would you? The stories say you protect life.

That is what I am doing.