Flak Quotes

#1. I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

Caitlyn Jenner

#2. If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target.

Gifford Pinchot

#3. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

G. Gordon Liddy

#4. Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000 an episode. When really I'm the one that's being cheated, because the writer's strike is keeping me from all the money that I could be making. I need to eat, too.

Zach Braff

#5. Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

Brett Hull

#6. much flak if I made you a general at your age.

Robert Lindsey

#7. I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

Stephen Sondheim

#8. Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I've probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously.

Sinead O'Connor

#9. In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

James Surowiecki

#10. Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'

Conan O'Brien

#11. You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.

Anne Sebba

#12. The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

Boyd K. Packer

#13. The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden.

Andy Stanley

#14. Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Kate Adie

#15. I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

Duane Michals

#16. Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

Ranbir Kapoor

#17. We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries.

Killi Krupa Rani

#18. Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Donald Rumsfeld

#19. My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Tori Amos

#20. I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

Fantasia Barrino

#21. Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

Juan Williams

#22. For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.

Oliver North

#23. I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

Donal Logue

#24. I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

Richard Bach

#25. I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

Barry Watson

#26. hurtling through space at mach eight. Flak

Pierce Brown

#27. Enemy flak is usually inaccurate...but when you start taking hits you'll have to call it accurate

Adam Makos

#28. It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

Salman Rushdie

#29. Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.

Nick Ferguson

#30. I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

Michael Totten

#32. I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

Joe Biden

#33. From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Randall Jarrell