Just the story of a mad man with a blue box

Tomorrow, in case you weren't aware, is the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

To celebrate this, I will be giving you 50 quotes from the show. These will mostly be from the New Who. To make this more interesting to those persons who don't revere watch Doctor Who, I have picked out quotes that do not really need context and that will hopefully make some kind of sense.

1. "You're a brilliant man! I'd call you a genius but I'm in the room."


2. "Doctor, they've got guns." "And I haven't, which makes the better person, don't you think? They can shoot me dead, but the moral high ground is mine."


3. "From a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, time is more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff."


4. "The universe doesn't implode if the Doctor dances."


5. "Time Lord. Last of. Never heard of me? 

Not even a myth? Blimey, the end of the universe is a bit humbling."

6. "

Correctomundo! A word I’ve never said and will hopefully never say again."

7. "

You fought her off with a water pistol? I bloody love you!"

8. "

We have an intruder!" "

An intruder! How did he get in? In-tru-der window? Bye-bye!"


9. "Not impossible, just a bit unlikely!"


10. "Nah, I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring."


11. "Sorry, I’m the Doctor, I’m very clever."


12. "You’re not gonna make the world any better by shouting at it!" "I can try!"


13. "I’m going to die." "Well, so am I one day." "Don't you dare. "Okay, I'll try not to."

14. "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically... run."

15. "You know when grown-ups tell you everything is going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?" "Yes." "Everything's going to be fine."

16. "I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's aunt! And that is not how I am introducing myself."

17. "You're soaking wet." "I was in the swimming pool." "You said you were in the library." "So was the swimming pool."

18. "Letting it get to you. You know what that's called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts."

19. "Time isn't a straight line. It's all... bumpy-wumpy. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays."

20. "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant." 

21. "The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes - very rarely - impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

22. "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better."

23. "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

24. "I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams."

25. "I'm the clever one, you're the potato one."

26. "My mother's cooking." "Good! Put her on slow heat and let her simmer!"

27. "Before I go, I just want to tell you - you were fantastic! Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I!"

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

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

30. "Would you mind not standing on my chest, my hat's on fire."

31. "Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyways."

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

33. "I'm not running away. But this is one corner, of one country, on one continent, on one planet, that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of the universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and growing and never remaining the same for a single millisecond and there is so much - so much to see."

34. "Shut up, I'm making deductions, it's very exciting."

35. "Never turn down tea if it's offered. It's impolite and that's how wars start."

36. "Crowds lines the mall today as the Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill returned to the Buckingham Senate on his personal mammoth."

37. "What's a horse doing on a spaceship?" "Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective."

38. 

"If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North?" "Lot's of planets have a north!"

39. "Nonsense."

40. "When I say run, run!"

41. "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow."

42. "Would you like a jelly baby?"

43. "Sorry, must dash."

44. "I wonder..."

45. "Fine."

46. "Who am I?"

47. "Fantastic!"

48. "Allons-y!"

49. "Geronimo."

50. "

When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But however hard you try, you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies. And nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment accepts it."

(I hope you appreciate that it took me two hours to find all those quotes.) 

Happy 50th! 

Warm and toasty books

So now that it's starting to get cold around here, I am filled with the desire to read winter books and watch winter movies. I have a little compilation of a few books that just make me feel warm and cozy on those cold winter days.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern which I previously reviewed here. I still love it very much.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. I don't know why but this is a very winter-y book for me. 

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. The name pretty much says it all, but it really is a magical winter book.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis. This is just the perfect winter day book. 

My other winter book tradition is to just skip to the winter chapters in Harry Potter. Most of the time, nothing exciting or adventurous is happening, it's just classes and day to day life at Hogwarts. Which is why I love it. As much as I enjoy reading about all of Harry's adventures, what I absolutely love about the Harry Potter books are the simple life scenes, the classrooms, the homework, the hanging out with friends and there's a lot of that in the winter chapters. Also, I love the Yule Ball chapter in the Goblet of Fire. 

I know that there aren't very many on the list, but that is my mission this winter: to find more wintery books to read. If you have any suggestions or ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments below!