Gr8at: #HarveySpector

Harvey Spectre is the man. While Suits is filled with brilliantly written characters like Jessica Pearson, Mike Ross and Rachel Zane, it’s the passionate, alpha male lawyer supreme who tends to steal the scenes. Because eight wasn’t enough, here are 16 of Harvey’s best pearls of wisdom.

I don’t play the odds, I play the man.

It’s what you do in the dark that puts you in the light.

You will live a dull and boring life if you do not take risks.

When you’re backed against the wall, break the goddamn thing down.

Everybody was a nobody before they were a somebody.

I didn’t ask you to explain the problem to me. I asked you to fix it for me.

You don’t send a puppy to clean up its own mess.

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

It’s not about how much you want it. It’s about how hard you’re willing to work.

I used to care about people’s opinions. but then I realised those people don’t pay my bills.

It’s going to happen because I’m going to make it happen.

The question isn’t “Who is going to let me? It’s “Who is going to stop me?”

I don’t have dreams I have goals.

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

You want to change your life? Change the way you think.

Life’s a game. Play to win.

Line(s) of the Day #LinManuelMiranda

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in your role. Go play.

Lin-Manuel Miranda (1980 – ) is an American songwriter, actor, playwright and filmmaker. Miranda has won five Grammy Awards, three Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, along with nominations for two Academy Awards.

Line(s) of the Day #DriversLicense

And I know we weren’t perfect but I’ve never felt this way for no one
And I just can’t imagine how you could be so okay now that I’m gone
Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me
‘Cause you said forever, now I drive alone past your street

Taken from the song “Drivers License” from the album Sour (2021) by American popstar Olivia Rodrigo. I’ve been listening a lot to her newest album Guts too, especially “Vampire”.

Things to See: Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules

I grew up reading The Beano so when I saw there was an exhibition about the history of the comic and its influence on British society I just had to attend. It was actually from 2021 but going through some old photos I realised I never posted about it here. Its first edition was in July 1938 but it really got going in the 1950s when its most memorable characters were created.

The exhibition covered everyone from Dennis the Menace (and his dog Gnasher and pup Gnipper), The Bash Street Kids and Minnie the Minx. Not forgetting my favourite Rodger the Dodger, the boy creating a series of dodges to avoid a life of effort and responsibility. The exhibition. What was fascinating too was just how the characters have changed in recent times, with current artists having to balance the rebellious nature of its characters with more modern day sensibilities.

Line(s) of the Dead #Creep

You’re just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world

Taken from the song ‘Creep’ from the album Pablo Honey (1993) by English artist Radiohead. The Oxfordshire band have had a love hate relationship with their breakout song, but it continues to connect with audiences. You can find two of my other favourites here and here.

Line(s) of the Day #BeinGreen

Greetings, Kermit the Frog here
And today I’d like to tell you a little bit about the color green
Do you know what’s green
Well I am for one thing
You see frogs are green, and I’m a frog
And that means that I’m green, you see

Taken from the opening lines of “Bein’ Green”, widely considered to be Kermit the Frog’s signature song. About embracing your identity, it has been covered by artists including Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.

Line(s) of the Day #RingoStarr

“None of us thought we would last a week! Paul was going to write, I was going to open a hairdressers, George would get a garage.”

Ringo Starr in an interview with The Sunday Times as part of the promotion of the new Beatles song “Now and Then”, as well as the Red and Blue album’s expanded versions. It makes you wonder what John Lennon would have done.

Line(s) of the Day #Beckham

I don’t give up easy. I don’t give up.

David Beckham in Beckham (2023), the four part Netflix series that charts the iconic English’s footballer’s memorable, and sometimes controversial, career from Manchester, Madrid and Milan to Paris and LA. Interviewing the man himself, as well as family, friends, former colleagues and coaches, it discusses his impact on and off the pitch, as well as the affect the game had had on him.

Line(s) of the Day #CrazyRichAsians

I just love Nick so much, I don’t want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day – when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you’re playing with your grandkids while the Tan Huas are blooming, and the birds are chirping – that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.

Rachel Chu (Costance Wu) in the lavish romcom Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Based on the novel of the same name by Kevin Kwan, it tells of a New York-based professor of economics who falls in love with the son of a hugely wealthy Singapore family.