Doctor Who quotes

SARAH: Doctor, you're being childish.
DOCTOR: Well of course I am. There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes


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Spooks quotes

HOME SECRETARY: You know, back in my days as a student radical, our dreams were all about the glorious proletariat.

HARRY: We’ve still got those dreams on file somewhere.

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JOHN RUSSELL: What aren’t you telling me, Harry?

HARRY: John, I’ve been up all night, my psychic powers are at a low ebb. Please elaborate.

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FERNANDO TORRES: La vida no vale nada, as they say.

HARRY: Not an expression we hear very much around these parts, but then again we did have rather more success in seeing off the Spanish than you.

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HARRY: Did I not say to shut that bloody journalist up? We’re supposed to be MI-5, not the Stoke Newington branch of the Green Party.

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HARRY: I’m aware I have not played nicely with the other children.

HOME SECRETARY: Would it have killed you to pick up a golf club every once in a while?

HARRY: It may well have done, yes.

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DIMITRI: How was your, er, um, break?

HARRY: In one particularly dark moment I actually considered gardening.

Doctor Who quotes

The Brigadier: Do you know what you're doing?

The Doctor: My dear chap, I can't wait to find out.

- The Daemons

Doctor Who quotes

The Fourth Doctor: "You know, 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 the views, which can be uncomfortable, if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

Doctor Who quotes

The Doctor: "Aren't you going to say it's bigger on the inside? Everyone else does."
Benton: "That's obvious, isn't it?"

~Doctor Who 10.01 The Three Doctors

Doctor Who quotes

THE DOCTOR: Keep it confused. Feed it with useless information. I wonder if I have a television set handy?

Corrie’s Karl is a Keeper

Watching last night’s Corrie, I decided that I really like Karl. This has been coming on for some time now, but last night cemented it.

We don’t know much about Karl, granted, but what we have seen is pretty much all good from where I’m sitting. He’s a bit of a lazy so-and-so, to be sure, but he also appears to be a really lovely, warm-hearted bloke who is deeply devoted to his missus. He also appears to be a natural father, despite not having any kids of his own.

The revelation that Stella is Leanne’s mum came as just as big a shock to Karl as everyone else and it clearly hurt to realise that Stella had kept such a huge secret from him – yet he proved a tower of strength for her throughout that crisis, as well as providing a shoulder to cry on for Eva and expanding his worldview to accommodate Leanne as his partner’s new daughter. Then last night, in the wake of Stella’s accident, even in the midst of his own emotional turmoil and distress, he was fantastic with both Eva and Leanne, supporting them both and keeping the peace between them, for Stella’s sake.

Yeah, I’ve decided that I like Karl rather a lot – and would love to know more about him! Here’s hoping the show starts to give him a bit more development now that he’s been established.

I’m also thoroughly enjoying the tense dynamics being explored within the Barlow-Price extended family unit – contrived though the circumstances of Stella’s accident were, it nonetheless provides an opportunity for this set of characters who are connected but don’t know one another properly to bounce off each other in new ways, exploring the issues that both link and divide them. I’m looking forward to seeing how the storyline continues to play out!