Painful Ballet

Too clever is dumb. - Ogden Nash

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

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

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

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. - Jodi Picoult

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

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

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