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After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?' -- Jimmy Fallon
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan. -- Hannah Storm
Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world. -- Don Yaeger
I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism. -- Julian Assange
You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] -- Plautus
The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest. -- Titus Welliver
A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress -- Robert Jordan
You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest. -- Kenneth Blackwell
To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest. -- Robert Jordan
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. -- Jonathan Swift
From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging. -- John Milton
Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do. -- Aretha Franklin
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. -- Fred Reed
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. -- Josh Billings
The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway. -- Albert Einstein
It used to be cars had cool names: Dart, Hawk, Fury, Cougar, Firebird, Hornet, Mustang, Barracuda. Now we have Elantra, Altima, Acura, Lumina, Sentra, Corolla, Maxima, Tercel. Further proof that America has lost its edge. -- George Carlin
The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees. -- Martin Luther
When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock, And the brown bee drones in the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its close, It's, Oh!, For the gate, and the locust lane; And dusk, and dew, and home again! -- Madison Cawein
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have. -- Aristotle
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now. -- Jimmy Carter
I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too. -- Francis Quarles
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education. -- Luther Burbank
Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them. -- Idries Shah

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