The Sarah Jane Adventures quotes

Sarah Jane

[in both the opening monologue and the denouement] I saw amazing things, out there in space--but there is strangeness to be found, wherever you turn. Life on Earth can be an adventure too... you just need to know where to look!

Mrs. Wormwood

Can we move on to business?

Sarah Jane

I've got contacts in the city that say this company dropped in from nowhere, and normally it takes years of tests to get approved by the EU to manufacture a new foodstuff, but you got it in two weeks.

Mrs. Wormwood

All we are doing is satisfying a need.

Sarah Jane

Which is?

Mrs. Wormwood

The people are hungry, Miss Smith. For new food. For new drinks. New tastes. All the western world does, is eat. All day, every day, eating. They gorge and feast and chew and bite. Everything sweet and hot and cold and sticky... food and drink. Just food and drink. That's the human race... they devour! Who are we to deny them?

Sarah Jane

[Columbo-esque] Oh, and by the way, what planet do you come from?

Mrs. Wormwood

Nice try.

Mrs. Wormwood

The thoughts of a child are chaos. Late homework? Is she fat? Will she ever be kissed? And she worships something called... the holy oak... no, Hollyoaks. But her parents fight - she wishes she was older, she wishes she was younger. This world scares her so very much.

Sarah Jane

I met this man, a very special man, called the Doctor. And years ago, we traveled together.

Maria

In space?

Sarah Jane

Space and time. Then it came to an end. Suddenly, I was back to a normal life. Electric bills, burst pipes, bus tickets... and rain.

She's gone completely loop-the-loop!

Sarah Jane

There, y'see? Who could I talk to about it? For years I tried to forget! And then I met him again, the Doctor... but we had both changed, but it was funny because we were still both, the same. I learned that I could carry on here on Earth, doing what we always did.

Right, everyone's an alien. You, me, the Pope, James Blunt - actually, I can believe that one...

Sarah Jane

Maria, there are two types of people in the world. Those who panic, and then there's us. Got it?

Maria

Got it.

Sarah Jane

When I was your age, I used to think "Oh, when I'm grown up, I'll know what I want, I'll be sorted." But you never really know what you want. You never feel grown up, not really. You never sort it all out... so I thought, I could handle life on my own. But after today... I don't want to!

You bought those plans off that Wallarian, you took his word it worked!

I just need to sort out the storage problem, then it'll stabilise, okay?!

And until then, I'm stuck here, in this, teaching science on the planet Thick, where they still haven't worked out string theory! Oh, it chafes!

Oh, shut up!

Clyde

Let’s have a High School Musical moment! A group hug will sort everything out.

The Prime Minister has promised that the blackouts will not affect the U.K-- [power shuts off]

Alan

Thank you, Prime Minister.

Sarah Jane Smith

Slitheen in Downing Street.

Luke Smith

What?

Sarah Jane Smith

[gently taking Luke by the arm] Something a friend said once.

Sarah Jane

Everyone gets old, Clyde, even you.

Clyde

Ha, no, not me! Way technology’s movin’, by the time I’m forty, I can get my brain put in a robot and live forever!

Alan

Maria, your mum and me, you know that’s all over.

Maria

[bitterly] Well that’s great for you, isn’t it? Some solicitor gives you a bit of paper, and it’s all over. But what good is that to me, Dad? She’s always gonna be my mum!

Alan

[hurt] But I know that. Of course she is, sweetheart.

Maria

Well, maybe I want her to get to know my friends, so she doesn’t think they’re weird anymore. And maybe I don’t want her to go back with Ivan. But that’s never gonna happen, is it? Because you’ve got a bit of paper!

Sarah Jane

[showing Bea an old photo with Bea and her husband] Can you tell me where you got this talisman?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Oh, that’s my Edgar.

Maria

Your husband?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Mm, yes! He used to say the Sontarans were the silliest-looking race in the galaxy. [chuckles]

Sarah Jane

[shocked] What did you say?

She’s always going on about monsters and space-men.

Sarah Jane

She’s seen Sontarans.

Maria

What’s a Sontaran?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

The silliest race in the galaxy, that’s what Edgar used to say. Like a huge… potato, with… [mimes a gun with her cane] rrrgh, a ray gun.

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Quite nasty blighters they were, all the same.

Sarah Jane

Oh yes, Bea, they are, you’re right! You’re absolutely right.