Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

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