Top 35 Quotes About Hornets
#1. One was to sting me," he thought, "I should swell up as big again as I am!" They were bigger than hornets. The drones were bigger than your thumb, a good deal, and the bands of yellow on their deep black bodies shone like fiery gold.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#2. I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.
Fred Reed
#3. Bullets sound like hornets when they pass too close to your head. After a while, the world closes down. You can't hear much, you can't see much, just the way ahead, the next slat, the next open gate. All you know is running; the only place that's real is away.
Sarah Zettel
#4. To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
Robert Jordan
#5. 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.
#6. Talking to her now was like flailing his hands at a storm of hornets. It did nothing, and it stung, and yet he couldn't stop himself.
Joe Hill
#7. 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
#8. From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.
John Milton
#9. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.
John Adams
#10. You poked the hornet's nest," I said flatly.
"Guess so."
"And how did that work out for you?" Ben asked.
"Found the hornets," he answered, grinning sleepily.
Carrie Vaughn
#11. I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.
Julian Assange
#12. 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
#13. You will stir up the hornets.
[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
Plautus
#15. Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.
Idries Shah
#16. If ya let hornets rest in yer outhouse, it's hard t'get pissed when they buzz down and sting yer ass.
Stephen J. Cannell
#17. I made so many B pictures I began to get fan mail from hornets...and for me that was an improvement.
Bob Hope
#18. I am one for whom dangers are play-
things
One who empties men of their
strength as a nut from its shell
The charms you use I chop up for
relish on my porridge
Beware! I am a deadly mamba
Wrestler of legends
A hive of hornets
A man among men
Nancy Farmer
#19. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
#20. 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
#21. We're allergic to to silver. Imagine sticking your hand in a hornets' nestand being forced to listen to the Wiggles while the little bastards repeatedly sting you
Molly Harper
#22. As for the queen, I had no more interest in her company than in plunging my face into a nest of hornets.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#23. A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress
Robert Jordan
#24. The knives hummed from her hand like angry hornets, straight toward her daughter's heart.
R.S. Belcher
#25. Talk to the Lord, Julianne. Even if you're mad as hornets. If you keep it all bottled up, you'll only end up with a belly full of bee stings.
Jocelyn Green
#26. 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
#27. I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me to this doctor in LA. I went there and had a consultation done. So, he examined exactly what the problem was and I went for the operation and it was a success.
Charlie Benante
#28. That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
Russell Simmons
#29. A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
Josh Billings
#30. Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
Cornel West
#31. Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ. - Albus Dumbledore
J.K. Rowling
#32. Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
Mary Balogh
#33. As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
Jessica Valenti
#34. My heart's cracking apart all over again because of the way I've missed him.
Jolene Perry
#35. Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
Aretha Franklin
