Mike Atkinson's Doctor Who Place: 2010

Saturday 13 February 2010

One thing I'm thankful to Russell T Davies for

I'm seventeen, and that's old enough to remember a time when absolutely nobody had heard of Doctor Who - at least not in my generation anyway. I do some volunteer work at a memorabilia stall in Manchester, and while there today, a rather attractive girl picked up and read the synopsis of a Peter Davison Target novelisation.

A girl. Picked up. A Target book.

Now, I'm not the biggest of fans of the new series, but bloody hell, stuff like this does make me thankfull it's back!

Quotations from the Fourth Dimension

"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day..."

"If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?"

"There is no indignity in being afraid to die, but there is a terrible shame in being afraid to live."

"My truth is in the stars, and yours is here."

"As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves."

"You can't rewrite history. Not one line!"

"It all started out as a mild curiosity in the junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure."

"Our lives are important - at least to us - and as we see, so we learn... Our destiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it."

"During all the years I've been taking care of you, you in return have been taking care of me. You are still my grandchild and always will be. But now, you're a woman too. I want you to belong somewhere, to have roots of your own. With David you will be able to find those roots and live normally like any woman should do. Believe me my dear, your future lies with David and not with a silly old buffer like me. 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. Goodbye Susan. Goodbye my dear."

"Your ideas are too narrow, too crippled. I am a citizen of the universe, and a gentleman to boot!"

"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!"

"I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part."

"I have to really want to, to bring them back in front of my eyes. The rest of the time they... sleep in my mind and I forget. And so will you."

"The best thing about a machine that makes sense is you can very easily make it turn out nonsense."

"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority."

"I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them!"

"My dear Miss Shaw, I never report myself anywhere, particularly not forthwith."

"Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered."

"Courage isn't just a matter of not being afraid. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."

"It's rather a pity, in a way...now the universe is down to 699 wonders."

"A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don't cry. While there's life, there's..."

"You may be a doctor. But I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say."

"There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes."

"Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable."

"Failed? No, not really. You see, I know that although the Daleks will create havoc and destruction for millions of years, I know also that out of their evil must come something good."

"You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle."

"I'm a Time Lord...I'm not a human being; I walk in eternity..."

"But I'm only seven hundred and forty-nine. Life doesn't begin until seven hundred and fif-"

"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!"

"If we don't find that pod before it germinates it will be the end of everything - EVERYTHING you understand, even your pension!"

"You humans have got such limited, little minds. I don't know why I like you so much."

"Any being that can exist, let alone thrive, inside a nuclear pile is hardly likely to be deterred by a few primitive missiles."

"Through the millennia, the Time Lords of Gallifrey led a life of ordered calm, protected against all threats from lesser civilisations by their great power. But this was to change. Suddenly, and terribly, the Time Lords faced the most dangerous crisis in their long history..."

"All right! I confess, I confess. I confess to your being a bigger idiot than I thought."

"You'd delay an execution to pull the wings off a fly."

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard."

"I'm the Doctor. Who are you, and why are you shooting at me?"

"You're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain."

"The localised condition of planetary atmospheric condensation caused a malfunction in the visual orientation circuits. Or to put it another way, we got lost in the fog."

"If you call that being nearly killed, you haven't lived yet."

"Good looks are no substitute for a sound character."

"I save planets, mostly."

"Hello. Did I short circuit?"

"Would you mind not standing on my chest? My hat's on fire."

"Well, I've had a good life, can't complain. Nearly 760. Not a bad age."

"Oh, look! Rocks!"

"If you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us?"

"I'm a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing."

"I say; what a wonderful butler, he's so violent!"

"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold hands."

"I suppose the best way to find out where you come from is to find out where you're going, and then work backwards."

"Oh, my arms! Oh, my legs! Oh, my everything!"

"Look, have a jelly baby and don't forget to clean your teeth."

"Why don't you give me the gun and then I can keep an eye on myself so I don't get up to any funny business."

"It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for..."

"There's always something to look at if you open your eyes!"

"For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about!"

"A risk shared is a risk doubled."

"That's three "I"s in one breath--makes you sound rather egotistical, young lady."

"Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead."

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"

"Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly."

"Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal."

"Love has never been noted for its rationality."

"Yes, that's right, you're going. You've been gone for ages. You're already gone. You're still here. You've just arrived. I haven't even met you yet. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time."

"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies."

"Time will tell, always does."

"Aha, not quite. I can hear the sound of empires toppling."

"Among all the varied wonders of the universe, there's nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind."

"He doesn't have to outrun the lion, only his friend. Then the lion catches up with his friend and eats him. The strong survive, the weak are killed: the law of the jungle! ... Yes, very clever, if you don't mind losing your friend. But what happens when the next lion turns up? I think you'd better get your running shoes on, gentlemen."

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and 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, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."

"Grace, I came back to life before your eyes. I held back death. Look, I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today."

"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there."

"Look over there! On the other side of your galaxy, that's home."

Saturday 13 February 2010

One thing I'm thankful to Russell T Davies for

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