Doctor Who sentence starters
Both New Who and Classic Who are represented.
“Oh, I thought you were my mirror image………until I realised I wasn’t the one holding a gun”
“If we fight like animals, we die like animals.”
“I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.”
“Could you hurry up and close the door? Your ship’s about to blow up; there’s gonna be a draft.”
“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.”
“You’re bluffing. There isn’t a sincere bone in your body… there isn’t a bone in your body!”
“The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.”
“You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”
“Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”
“Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you’re busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence.”
“This is who I am, right here, right now, all right? All that counts is here and now, and this is me!”
“I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.”
“Always take a bannana to a party.”
“You wanted advice you said. I never give it. Never. But I might just say this to you. Always search for truth. My truth is in the stars and yours is here.”
“I don’t believe that man was made to be controlled by machines. Machines can make laws, but they can not preserve justice. Only human beings can do that.”
“You destroyed a whole planet just to save your own skin. You’re insane!”
“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.”
“Life depends on change, and renewal.”
“Yes. When I say run, run like a rabbit. Run!”
“Our lives are different to anybody else’s. That’s the exciting thing, that nobody in the universe can do what we’re doing.”
“You haven’t been trying to play this, have you? ”
“Are you trying to tell me that you were going to make cocoa in my lab?!”
“That wasn’t a question. That was a statement.”
“Would you like a Jelly Baby?”
“You’re standing on my scarf.”
“Do you think I might attract attention?”
“If I tell you want you want to know, I betray millions of people in the future. I can’t do that.”
“Yes… perhaps it is time we were leaving. Don’t want to be blamed for starting a fire, do we?”
“That’s monstrous! Vaporisation without representation is against the constitution!”
“When did you last have the pleasure of smelling a flower, watching a sunset, eating a well-prepared meal? … For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about!”
“An apple a day keeps the… Ah, never mind.”
“That’s the trouble with regeneration. You never quite know what you’re going to get.”
“It’s times like this I wish I still had my scarf.”
“You were expecting someone else?”
“ Change? What change? There is no change… no time, no rhyme, no place for space, nothing! Nothing but the grinding engines of the universe, the crushing boredom of eternity!”
“Guns can seriously damage your health, you know!”
“You don’t understand regeneration, Mel. It’s a lottery, and I’ve drawn the short plank.”
“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.”
“Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself.”
“You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.”
“You dreamt you could hold back death. Isn’t that true?”
“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”
“Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I’m saving the world?”
“Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer!”
“ You let one go, but that’s nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim’s spared. Because she smiled, because he’s got freckles, because they begged. And that’s how you live with yourself. That’s how you slaughter millions. Because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind’s in the right direction, you happen to be kind.
“The angels have the phonebox.”
“ I’ve seen fake gods and bad gods and demigods and would-be gods; out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing… just one thing… I believe in her.”
“All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was. Where do you want to start? ”
