110+ Steven Moffat Quotes On Education, World And Future

Steven Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer. He is best known for his work on the British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock. He has won several awards for his writing, including two Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and a Hugo Award. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Steven Moffat on education, life, world.

Top 10 Steven Moffat Quotes

1. When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
2. See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.
3. There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
4. I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.
5. You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.
6. Demons run when a good man goes to war.
7. Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
8. What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?
9. We're all stories, in the end.
10. Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Steven Moffat Short Quotes

• Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)
• All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.
• If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.
• I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
• My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
• If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
• You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
• I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.
• As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.
• I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Steven Moffat Quotes About Life

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident. — Steven Moffat

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. — Steven Moffat

Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box. — Steven Moffat

Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger. — Steven Moffat

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust* — Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat Quotes About World

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! — Steven Moffat

Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again! — Steven Moffat

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel. — Steven Moffat

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women. — Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat Quotes About Universe

Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up. — Steven Moffat

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

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe. — Steven Moffat

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it. — Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat Quotes About Love

Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon. — Steven Moffat

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film? — Steven Moffat

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below — Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat Famous Quotes And Sayings

There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands. — Steven Moffat

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north! — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool. — Steven Moffat

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink. — Steven Moffat

River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool. — Steven Moffat

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine. — Steven Moffat

Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that. — Steven Moffat

Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives. — Steven Moffat

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins. — Steven Moffat

River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair. — Steven Moffat

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires] — Steven Moffat

I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back. — Steven Moffat

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. — Steven Moffat

There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me — Steven Moffat

Amy: "Can I come?" Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back." Amy: "People always say that." Doctor: "Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor. — Steven Moffat

Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male. — Steven Moffat

You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen. — Steven Moffat

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office. — Steven Moffat

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up. — Steven Moffat

Peter Capaldi, will always be Doctor Who. You retain the title forever. Ask your predecessors, they all think they're the real one. I've had Sunday lunch with Peter Davidson and David Tennant and they're eyeing each other like, 'It's me! — Steven Moffat

Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel. — Steven Moffat

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil. — Steven Moffat

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch. — Steven Moffat

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

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train. — Steven Moffat

Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them. The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later. ~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe — Steven Moffat

Sherlock Holmes becomes more human and more adept at fitting in with a lot of people, but he remains separate from the human race because he finds that a better place to observe that from. He stays on the mountain top because there, he can see clearly. — Steven Moffat

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face. River: This is my normal face. The Doctor: Yes it is. River: Oh, shut up. The Doctor: Not a chance. — Steven Moffat

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer. — Steven Moffat

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. — Steven Moffat

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408. — Steven Moffat

It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement. — Steven Moffat

Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me! — Steven Moffat

Always take a banana to a party. — Steven Moffat

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that. — Steven Moffat

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring. — Steven Moffat

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7. — Steven Moffat

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart. — Steven Moffat

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. — Steven Moffat

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. — Steven Moffat

So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying? — Steven Moffat

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard. — Steven Moffat

I always tend to favor the newer idea. — Steven Moffat

I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there. — Steven Moffat

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go. — Steven Moffat

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor...is embarrassingly human for an alien. — Steven Moffat

Brainy's the new sexy. — Steven Moffat

We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock. — Steven Moffat

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard. — Steven Moffat

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful. — Steven Moffat

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious. — Steven Moffat

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet! — Steven Moffat

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real. — Steven Moffat

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about. — Steven Moffat

I like naked women! I'm a bloke! I'm supposed to like them! We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one... When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. — Steven Moffat

Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set. — Steven Moffat

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well. — Steven Moffat

[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words. — Steven Moffat

Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories. But many years later, when I met the real Sarah Jane - Lis Sladen herself - she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers. Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too? — Steven Moffat

You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt. — Steven Moffat

What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else. — Steven Moffat

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool. — Steven Moffat

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger. — Steven Moffat

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too. — Steven Moffat

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care. — Steven Moffat

Rule 1: The Doctor lies. — Steven Moffat

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive! — Steven Moffat

Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television. — Steven Moffat

Life Lessons by Steven Moffat

1. Steven Moffat's work demonstrates the power of creativity and imagination, as he has been able to create compelling stories and characters that have resonated with audiences around the world.
2. His success also serves as a reminder of the importance of hard work and dedication, as he has dedicated himself to honing his craft and has become one of the most successful television writers of all time.
3. Finally, his work also shows the importance of collaboration and teamwork, as he has worked with a variety of talented individuals to create some of the most beloved television shows of all time.