Doctor Who Quotes

“Were you always like this?’
‘Like what?’
‘A madman. With a time machine.’
‘Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“I’m very clever,’ said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“Who wears masks?’
‘Bank robbers?’
‘No.’
‘Really ugly people?’
‘No.’
‘Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.’
‘Yes! They do!’ He flung his arms wide in delight.
‘So that’s important?’
‘Not even a little bit. But it’s true.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“In the beginning – before the beginning – was the word. And the word was ‘Doctor!’”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“Where’s Rory? I want him, right now,’ demanded Amy as the TARDIS lurched away into space and time. The Doctor had only briefly met her fiancé, Rory Williams, once before. She didn’t think the Doctor understood what she saw in Rory. Some days, she was not entirely sure what she saw in Rory. But she was certain of this: nobody took her fiancé away from her.
‘Good question. Where’s Rory? Also, where’s seven billion other people?’ he asked.
‘I want my Rory.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“Could be anyone. The Kin. I mean... it’s like calling yourselves the People. It’s what pretty much every race-name means. Except for Dalek. That means Metal-Cased Hatey Death Machines in Skaronian.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“There was a clunk and the door flew open; the sudden daylight was blinding. The Doctor saw, with delight, his friend, and a familiar big blue police box. He was not certain which to hug first.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“You’re enjoying this,’ said Amy. ‘My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory’s gone. And you’re enjoying this.’
‘No, I’m not,’ said the Doctor, trying hard not to show how much he was enjoying it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“But, Doctor. The human race didn’t die out in 1984.’
‘New timeline. It’s a paradox.’
‘And you’re the paradoctor?’
‘Just the Doctor.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“If I wasn’t born, what am I doing here?’
‘You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse...’ He saw her expression, and stopped.
‘You’re telling me it’s timey-wimey, aren’t you?’
‘Yes,’ he said seriously. ‘I suppose I am.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“The Kin,’ said the Doctor. ‘A population that consists of only one creature, but able to move through time as easily and instinctively as a human can cross the road. There was only one of you. But you’d populate a place by moving backwards and forwards in time until there were hundreds of you, then thousands and millions, all interacting with yourselves at different moments on your own timeline. And this would go on until the local structure of time would collapse, like rotten wood. You need other entities, at least in the beginning, to ask you the time, and create the quantum superpositioning that allows you to anchor to a place–time location.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“The Doctor had a remarkable memory. The problem was, there was so much of it. He had lived eleven lives (or more: there was another life, was there not, that he tried his best never to think about) and he had a different way of remembering things in each life.
The worst part of being however old he was (and he had long since abandoned trying to keep track of it in any way that mattered to anybody but him) was that sometimes things didn’t arrive in his head quite when they were meant to.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“It’s quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.’
‘No radio waves,’ said the Doctor. ‘Not even Radio Four.’
‘You can hear radio waves?’
‘Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,’ he said unconvincingly.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“Amy looked irritated. She wasn’t irritated, but she sometimes liked to give him the impression she was, just to show him who was boss.
‘Why don’t you ever call things by their proper names? The tabley thing over there? It’s called “a table”.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“That was the trouble with hiding things. Sometimes, if you were in a hurry, you left them behind. Even important things.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse …’ He saw her expression, and stopped. ‘You’re telling me it’s timey-wimey, aren’t you?’ ‘Yes,’ he said seriously. ‘I suppose I am.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

“One moment,’ said Amy, ‘I was about to be eaten by that creature. The next I was sitting in the kitchen, talking to Mrs Browning, and listening to The Archers. How did you do that?’
‘I’m very clever,’ said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible.”
― Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock