Painful Ballet

Too clever is dumb. - Ogden Nash

Upward spinal (spiral) - Archie Bunker

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Only dumb people are happy. - Courtney Love

Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

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

I can't brain today. I have the dumb. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

Too much homework can cause stress, depression and even lower grades. - Unknown

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

A diamond is just a piece of coal that handles stress exceptionally well. - Unknown

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. - Hans Selye

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

Stress depletes willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. - Roy F Baumeister

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime. - Scott Adams

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

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever. - Mary Ann Mobley

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

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

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay