Doctor Who Quotes - Page 5

• The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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• Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

  Steven Moffat

  People, Sparrows, Nightingales

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• The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

  Steven Moffat

  Impossible Things, Years, Miracle

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• The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhism, Reality, Doctors

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• The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doctors, Somewhere Else, Nurse

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

  Russell T Davies

  Book, Knowledge, Doctors

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• I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

  Conor Oberst

  Kindness, Thinking, Doctors

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• Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control! Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek Sec: Four. Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect. Cyber Leader: What is that? Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.

  Russell T Davies

  War, Leader, Dying

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• I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

  Libba Bray

  Doctors, Giving, Promise

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.77, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

  Neil Gaiman

  Blue, Space, Doctors

  "If This is Sunday Than I Must be at Home" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. April 7, 2011.

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• Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas! The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve? Rose: [shocked] What? The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me anything; I'm on fire!

  Steven Moffat

  Father, Fire, Doctors

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• The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend.

  Russell T Davies

  Moon, Doctors, Rose

  "Doctor Who: The Long Game". TV Series, May 7, 2005.

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• I was very lucky. My neck hurt and I went to my doctor, who was kind of hip, and he said it was stress-caused and that I needed to learn how to meditate. So I learned how to do Transcendental Meditation.

  Rick Rubin

  Hurt, Stress, Doctors

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• Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doctors, People, Bigger

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• In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Doctors

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• Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

  Jack Klugman

  Doctors, Years, Voice

  "Jack Klugman's Widow Turns Planned Holiday Party Into Memorial" by Jeanne Wolf, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 30, 2012.

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• A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Deserve More, Doctors

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.

  Sarah Sutton

  Running, Stars, Fun

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• There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

  Moliere

  Doctors, Remarkable, Complaints

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• Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Doctors, Office

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• Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, Optimistic, Doctors

  1910 Misalliance, preface.

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• I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

  Eoin Colfer

  Doctors, Television, Unusual

  "Writing my very own Doctor Who". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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• I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

  Colin Baker

  Doctors, Facts, Kind

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• I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

  Colin Baker

  Brother, Doctors, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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