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.
Quotes about flak (16 Quotes)
The army and police force give their officers flak jackets, but their souls are ripped apart with no protection whatsoever. The help does not come from the establishment but from private places.
Our biggest allies are the local development offices and councils. They're the people who get the flak from the business people who are attracted to Kent because it's more rural and less stressful than the city, but if they can't get metropolitan-quality communications, they're going to think about it.
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.
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
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.
Other than getting some flak from the more conservative elements, I think Gonzales would pass easily, ... How is a Democrat going to oppose the first Hispanic nominee And Bush has some personal loyalty to him. If he wants to get him on the bench, this is the time to do it.
That's always how I played sports from the time I was a kid. I just kind of developed that and it wasn't a reputation that I relished. I took more flak for it than anything but when you're competing you become a different type of person. You certainly become more instinctive and you react more than you have time to contemplate and control your emotions, or at least I do.
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its 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.
They all pledged to back whatever decision I made, ... But I knew the heavy flak they were getting from other members of Congress and, more important, from their own constituents.
But you would expect that anywhere in the world. Teams coming to Australia also expect some flak from the crowds. It's all part of the game, but there's more talk about what happens on the field than actually happens.
Obviously they're getting a lot of flak from Congress and the Europeans as well. It was going to happen at some point anyway. It probably happened sooner than it would have if Congress and the administration hadn't said anything,
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.
She's very brave the way she tackles this in the book. She's been given a lot of flak from the right, saying, 'Who'd want you' But she does deal well with the imperfect fit between men and women. If she was a man, she'd have a ton of people throwing themselves at her.
I see little kids wearing flak jackets. If we're teaching little leaguers it's OK to wear body armor, those kids are going to go into high school, and into college, and eventually they're going to be big league players, and I can just see them walking up there now in a damn suit of armor. Straddling the plate. With a bat over their heads. I don't know where it stops.