Top 100 Issa Quotes
#1. Issa knelt down in front of her, taking her hands in his. Until the end of time, I will love you. You are the moon in my endless night. I have never abandoned this world, even when I desperately wanted to, and I will never leave you, either.
Lisa Kessler
#2. There is an expression here on Capitol Hill," Issa told me. "'Don't ever get between a member and a camera.'" That can be particularly harrowing in the case of Issa, who had purchased a T-shirt for Bardella that said: "It's all about me.
Mark Leibovich
#3. A world of dew and within every dewdrop a world of struggle. ISSA
Richard Flanagan
#4. I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.
Jason Chaffetz
#5. My kingdom for caffeine," she mumbled, making prayer hands up at the ceiling.
When, however, in the next second, Issa entered with tea, Zuzana was not grateful.
"Coffee, I meant coffee," she told the ceiling, as if the universe were a waiter that had gotten her order wrong.
Laini Taylor
#6. It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.
Laini Taylor
#7. From that woman on the beach, dusk pours out across the evening waves. ISSA
Richard Flanagan
#8. Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself.
"It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.
Laini Taylor
#9. I like that he calls her Issa, which I'm assuming is short for Allysa. I think about my own name and if I'll ever find a guy who could shorten it into a sickeningly cute nickname. Illy.
Nope. Not the same
Colleen Hoover
#11. Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.
Darrell Issa
#12. Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
Darrell Issa
#13. I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.
Issa Rae
#14. I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
Darrell Issa
#15. I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.
Issa Rae
#16. Summer night
even the stars
are whispering to each other.
Kobayashi Issa
#17. On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
Kobayashi Issa
#18. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
Kobayashi Issa
#20. You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.
Issa Rae
#21. Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.
Darrell Issa
#22. Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.
Darrell Issa
#23. I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.
Darrell Issa
#24. It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.
Issa Rae
#25. The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet
Kobayashi Issa
#26. The Internet has provided small communities for racism online, and people feel free to do it. Ultimately, there should be some consequence - if you promote your racism online then there should be a consequence.
Issa Rae
#27. I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.
Issa Rae
#30. Don't kill! ...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together
Kobayashi Issa
#31. I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.
Darrell Issa
#33. I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.
Issa Rae
#34. Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.
Darrell Issa
#35. I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.
Darrell Issa
#36. You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.
Darrell Issa
#37. I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary.
Issa Rae
#38. Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.
Kobayashi Issa
#39. I can't tell you the amount we plan to invest in new acquisitions because that will depend on the opportunities that become available to us.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
#40. Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
Issa Rae
#41. Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice.
Kobayashi Issa
#43. I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers.
Issa Rae
#44. You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.
Darrell Issa
#45. You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
Darrell Issa
#46. Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.
Darrell Issa
#47. I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.
Issa Rae
#48. My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.
Darrell Issa
#49. Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.
Issa Rae
#50. I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
Issa Rae
#51. Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.
Darrell Issa
#54. I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
Darrell Issa
#55. Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.
Kobayashi Issa
#56. Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.
Kobayashi Issa
#57. Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point ... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
Darrell Issa
#58. 'Awkward Black Girl' is spreading to all the right people because of word of mouth and social networks. I'm so grateful.
Issa Rae
#59. As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.
Issa Rae
#61. Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love
Kobayashi Issa
#62. My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
Issa Rae
#63. People are willing to support and watch web series as a legitimate form of entertainment.
Issa Rae
#64. Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
Darrell Issa
#65. This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet -
Kobayashi Issa
#66. There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.
Issa Rae
#67. In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends
Kobayashi Issa
#68. In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.
Darrell Issa
#69. Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
Kobayashi Issa
#71. It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.
Issa Rae
#72. Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.
Issa Rae
#74. Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.
Darrell Issa
#75. The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
Darrell Issa
#77. Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers.
Issa Rae
#78. My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
Darrell Issa
#79. Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.
Kobayashi Issa
#80. Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.
Issa Rae
#81. Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'
Issa Rae
#82. Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media ... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
Issa Rae
#83. Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous.
Issa Rae
#84. Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.
Darrell Issa
#85. It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
Issa Rae
#87. To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
#88. The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
Darrell Issa
#89. The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.
Darrell Issa
#91. The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it!
Issa Rae
#92. The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.
Issa Rae
#94. I'm a social media addict.
Issa Rae
#96. If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
Darrell Issa
#97. I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends - and my friends are hilarious.
Issa Rae
#98. Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.
Darrell Issa
#99. I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'
Issa Rae
#100. People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color.
Issa Rae
