Painful Ballet

Too clever is dumb. - Ogden Nash

Upward spinal (spiral) - Archie Bunker

Only dumb people are happy. - Courtney Love

There are no dumb customers. - Peter F Drucker

Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run. - Unknown

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. - Terry Bradshaw

The spine is man's Achilles' heel. - Andre Brie

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. - Gerri Guillemets

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. - David Mamet

If stress burned calories, I'd be a supermodel. - Unknown

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. - Loretta Young

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

Smile. It will bring serenity to the most stressful situations. - Garnet Hill

The early bird would never catch the worm if the dumb worm slept late. - Milton Berle

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. - Marilu Henner

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. - Richard Carlson

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. - Kelly Clarkson

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. - Bob Harper

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

Do not be afraid to ask dumb questions; they are easier to handle than dumb mistakes. - Unknown

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love, or exercise. - Hans Selye

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. - Erica Jong

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

Then she thought bitterly that it would be much easier to resist chocolate if her life were less stressful. - J K Rowling

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. - Mark Twain

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. - Mark Twain

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. - Robert A. Wilson

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott