Aisha Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it. So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are. — Aisha Tyler

I think diversity in television is important. It's not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity, but I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity. — Aisha Tyler

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop. — Aisha Tyler

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being.
Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym. — Aisha Tyler

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand. — Aisha Mirza

I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married. — Aisha Tyler

TV always wants more people to be watching. — Aisha Tyler

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically. — Aisha Tyler

Mariama finished her customer's hair, sprayed it with sheen, and, after the customer left, she said, "I'm going to get Chinese." Aisha and Halima told her what they wanted - General Tso's Chicken Very Spicy, Chicken Wings, Orange Chicken - with the quick ease of people saying what they said every day. "You want anything?" Mariama asked Ifemelu. "No, thanks," Ifemelu said. "Your hair take long. You need food," Aisha — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on. — Aisha Tyler

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. — Aisha Mirza

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough. — Aisha Tyler

Guys as a gender have one giant collective delusion of grandeur. — Aisha Tyler

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits. — Aisha Tyler

doesn't teach. Winning rewards. You can only really learn from failure. And in the end, after you have taken a prolonged physical and psychological beating that would destroy a lesser man or woman, you will understand that success is not the absence of failure, but rather the presence of not quitting when you do fail. To win, you need to fail, and fail hard. — Aisha Tyler

I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men. — Aisha Tyler

Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess. — Aisha Mirza

Best fabulous flamingo friends forever. — Aisha Cat

If you could hear the angels pen your deeds... what would you be doing with your life? — Aisha Mirza

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy. — Aisha Tyler

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future. — Aisha Tyler

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander. — Aisha Tyler

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful. — Aisha Tyler

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day. — Aisha Tyler

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors. — Aisha Tyler

Her tongue was a restless, restless river washing words ashore its banks. — Lena Aisha

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. — Aisha Tyler

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know. — Aisha Mirza

I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time. — Aisha Tyler

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse. — Aisha Tyler

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood. — Aisha Tyler

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw. — Aisha Tyler

I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies. — Aisha Mirza

We sometimes just have to let things be.

There are times in life that things happen, and we just cannot control them. There are times when we don't want things to happen, but they do. Things that we don't want to know, we learn. Times in which people we can't live without, we have to let go.

The greatest learning is accepting what has, what is, and what will be. Remaining focussed on where we want to go, and how we want to get there. It might not go the way we planned, or the way we hoped it would be. No one said life would be easy, but at least we keep trying, and working hard at making it the best life it can be. — Aisha Mirza

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter. — Aisha Tyler

Negativity only breeds more negativity. I wish to not allow it to enter my heart and not for it to take harbour. It may make itself a home and never leave. — Aisha Mirza

I like grown up comedy. — Aisha Tyler

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception. — Aisha Mirza

A whisper of selflessness echos boundlessly. — Aisha Mirza

My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete. — Aisha Mirza

Said. "I'm fine. I have a granola bar," Ifemelu said. She had some baby carrots in a Ziploc, too, although all she had snacked on so far was her melted chocolate. "What bar?" Aisha asked. Ifemelu showed her the bar, organic, one hundred percent whole grain with real fruit. "That not food!" Halima scoffed, looking away from the television. "She here fifteen years, Halima," Aisha said, as if the length of years in America explained Ifemelu's eating of a granola bar. "Fifteen? Long time," Halima said. Aisha waited until Mariama left before pulling out her cell phone from her pocket. "Sorry, I make quick call," she said, and stepped outside. Her face had brightened when — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons. — Aisha Mirza

I really do know football. — Aisha Tyler

Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice. — Aisha Tyler

A bra was not for little kids who dreamed of being astronauts. What are you gonna do with boobs in space? Unless they are currency for some far-flung civilization, all they're going to do is interfere with proper oxygen flow inside your space suit. — Aisha Tyler

When one is undone - sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one's own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery - much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China. — Aisha Tyler

I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, "Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people." — Aisha Tyler

Shirts are so complicated. — Aisha Cat

Ya Rabb, I was thinking my position later Hereafter. Could I side with the prince of the women Khadija al-Kubra who struggle with the treasure and his life? Hafsah bint Umar or defended by God when will the divorced because shawwamah (diligent fasting-ed) and qawwamahnyaI (diligent tahajud)? Or with Aisha who has memorized hadith early 3500, I was .... 500 Ehm not yet ... or at Umm Sulaym who shabiroh (patient) or with Asma who take care of him and denounced his son vehicles at rest from jihad ... or with whom huh. Ya Allah, please give them the strength to pursue amaliah worthy ... so I can meet them even conversed with them in your garden Firdaus — Yoyoh Yusroh

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self. — Aisha Mirza

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon. — Aisha Tyler

I was this weird little bookish giant. — Aisha Tyler

In knowing you I, discovered my self. — Aisha Mirza

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so. — Aisha Tyler

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard. — Aisha Tyler

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket. — Aisha Tyler

Karaoke is the great equalizer. — Aisha Tyler

There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge. — Aisha Hinds

Spend time beautifying your soul, the rest will simply follow. — Aisha Mirza

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture. — Aisha Tyler

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again. — Aisha Tyler

If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do. — Aisha Hinds

Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones. — Aisha Mirza

Get up, go out into the world, and do awesome shit. — Aisha Tyler

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins. — Aisha Bint Abi Bakr

The heart stays heavy if it remains in a state of unforgiveness. — Aisha Mirza

Ughhhhh I'll do it LATERRRRRR — Aisha Cat

Vulnerability always comes with risks, but its rewards are deep. — Aisha Mirza

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. — Aisha Tyler

In the shade of words sits life itself. — Aisha Mirza

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was. — Aisha Tyler

I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings. — Aisha Tyler

Young people are swaddled in delusion. You think you are more awesome than you are, the world more interested in you than it is, your countenance more dazzling, your ideas more captivating, and that LeBron James was just a natural talent recruited from a neighborhood pickup game. You don't want to practice, you don't see the value in sacrifice, and you are convinced there is some vast comedy conspiracy to keep you from buying your first Bentley and dating a model by the time you are twenty-five. Wow. You are a douche. — Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes. — Aisha Tyler

It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind. — Aisha Mirza

Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle.
It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard. — Aisha Mirza

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit. — Aisha Tyler

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts. — Aisha Tyler

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole. — Aisha Tyler

We don't really need great amounts of anything. We just need a little of something great. — Aisha Mirza

I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life. — Aisha Hinds

I have learnt that once one lets go of all expectations, one can never be disappointed; everything then that comes one's way, will be an appreciated blessing. — Aisha Mirza

Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy. — Aisha Mirza

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened. — Aisha Mirza

I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me. — Aisha Tyler

A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment. — Aisha Tyler

I have learnt that no amount of darkness can mask even the slightest glimmer of light. Find your light and drive out the dark. — Aisha Mirza

I might not agree with myself in a year. — Aisha Tyler

Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along. — Aisha Tyler

Now I am standing in the shoes God put on my feet to share my story to help redirect someone else. To empower someone's daughter, granddaughter, mother. — Stevii Aisha Mills

One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience. — Aisha Tyler

If we have touched another's life with our action and through our words then we have lived. — Aisha Mirza

I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in. — Aisha Tyler

Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they're always going to be up, and I think that's impossible for anyone. — Aisha Tyler

It is not hard," Ifemelu said firmly. "You are using the wrong comb." And she pulled the comb from Aisha's hand and put it down on the table. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times. — Aisha Tyler

I don't know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story. — Aisha Tyler

Having high resilience does not mean it doesn't sometimes sting. — Aisha Mirza

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail. — Aisha Tyler

If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated. — Aisha Tyler