Flack Quotes & Sayings

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight. — Roberta Flack

Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That's right. I fucked Jack Black. Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that's a relationship in my book. And by the way, this is my book. — Kathy Griffin

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country. — Roberta Flack

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved. — Roberta Flack

Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting. — Priyanka Chopra

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. — Mackenzie Astin

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it. — Michael Winterbottom

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light. — Roberta Flack

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone. — Roberta Flack

Just when you think you can't go on, somewhere a little light comes on. — Sophie Flack

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard. — Charlie Munger

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others. — Audrey Flack

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that! — Tyler Perry

I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story. — Ruby Rose

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become. — Audrey Flack

If you can't paint, paint Big. — Audrey Flack

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful. — Roberta Flack

Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you. — Roberta Flack

Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you. — Roberta Flack

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes — Roberta Flack

I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's ... I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that. — Joss Whedon

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas. — Roberta Flack

For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries. — Audrey Flack

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ... — Roberta Flack

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts. — Roberta Flack

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues. — Audrey Flack

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress. — Roberta Flack

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides.- Unofficial UN Motto — Robert Asprin

From the standpoint of integrity, I think we all need to own up to our dirty little secrets. I believe that when we are open about our own strange desires or unusual lives, it paves the way for others to do the same.

In the past thirty years, gay men and lesbians took a lot of flack to tell the truth about their love lives and their courage opened the door for a mass migration out of the closet. We're now at a moment in time when unconventional families (even thirty-year triads and gay couples) are losing their children in custody battles because their families don't conform to mainstream ideas about what a family should be.

Given this context, I want to be someone who stands up for my choices even if they're unpopular, even if I get snickers at cocktail parties. — Victoria Vantoch

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. — Whitney Houston

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about. — Audrey Flack

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint. — Audrey Flack

I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code. — Kara Swisher

As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person. — Frederick Lenz

I've gotten more flack from the remake nature of our 'Being Human' from American audiences than I have from British fans. Every fan of the BBC original that I've bumped into seemed very excited and interested in seeing what we did with it - at least to my face! — Samuel Witwer

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected. — Roberta Flack

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. — Moby

A lot of people in the WWE try to paint themselves as outlaws and rebels and I really honestly believe I'm the only one left. I always do what I want and I never get any flack for it. I don't know if it's because they know they're not gonna win, or it's not worth fighting me over. Plus I don't see what the big deal is about me wearing a Cabana shirt. The guy should be working there, first of all, and it's promoting my friend. I don't see what the big deal is. — CM Punk

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. — Roberta Flack

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely. — Roberta Flack

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's. — Roberta Flack

I've been overweight all my life. — Roberta Flack

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it. — Audrey Flack

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out. — Roberta Flack

Art is a protest against death. — Audrey Flack

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song. — Roberta Flack

Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it? — Jack Palance

I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy.' — Ruby Rose

Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting. — Rob Zombie

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. — Lauryn Hill

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it. — Peabo Bryson

The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not. — Elliott Abrams

he felt so sleepy he began to cry again. "What is the matter?" asked the Huge One. "I am sleepy and I have no bed, sir." "But if you are sleepy why don't you just sleep?" said the Huge One. "Shut your eyes and go to sleep. — Marjorie Flack