"It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still... I can feel it: the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... That's who I am." The Doctor
Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston isn't regarded as a sentimental type; he's known as the dark Doctor who bust his way out of prison on Satellite 5, and tortured a Dalek simply for being alive. That hasn't stopped him from contributing his fair share of beautiful lines to the history of the show. This particular quote, in his first episode, is used to introduce his character, and it does so fantastically; the attention to detail of the facts, for starters, suggests an extraordinary excitement of the universe. But it's more than that; in this quotation, Russell T Davies makes the our own world feel both amazing and unbelievably dangerous. The part where the Doctor tells Rose that they're "falling", "clinging" to the Earth, is something that we're all doing, and it adds a dramatic electricity to everyday knowledge. But most of all, it's a quotation that sums up the character of the Doctor. He's special because he notices the tiny details that we take for granted every single day. That's who he is.
