Curling Quotes

The cover story of New York Magazine this week is "Baby Panic". This goes perfectly with the other magazines on my coffee table - "Where Are The Babies?" (US), "Why Haven`t You Had A Baby?" (People) and "For God`s Sake Have A Baby" (Time). Thanks, Time magazine, this is just what I need - another article so depressing that I can actually hear my ovaries curling up.

She and I have been curling together for more than 15 years. It`s not new. We`re the best of friends and we know each other so well on the ice and off. It`s so special for our family to see the sisters on the ice together.

My sister, she played with my grandparents, my aunts and my uncles. That`s mainly what we did. It must be in the blood or something. We just really enjoy curling so much.

It`s been quite a phenomenon, really. Curling was on quite late in the evening. It was about midnight or after that, in fact, by the time the game finished. We got an audience of 6.3 million that stayed up to watch the curling final. Now there are only five million people in Scotland, so clearly they weren`t all Scots.

Comedy is what we do, curling is just a sideline.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn`t see ball players with curling irons.

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.