Painful Ballet

Too clever is dumb. - Ogden Nash

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Only dumb people are happy. - Courtney Love

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

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

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

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck. - Marian Erickson

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

Dubm Waiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

Most stress is caused by people who overestimate the importance of their problems. - Michael LeBoeuf

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

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

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

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

In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

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

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

Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip

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

Animals are not our selfie props. If there's any risk that your photo is going to hurt or stress an animal, it's not worth it. - Angela Henderson

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

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