Twyla Tharp Quotes

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

Presidential candidates don't chew gum.

I'm a major breath person, so I always have gum, mints.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

I always have Trident gum with me because I talk to people all the time.

I hate when people are chomping their gum, even though I do it. I hate that.

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.

I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.

[on 8/24/04, before entering a Los Angeles hospital for heart valve replacement surgery] If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half.

For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.

No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.