SAY AGAIN

“This business is one of those where you just have to work hard to make

it go, so that’s what we do all the time -- work hard from the moment we

wake up.”

-- Terese Pearson, who works with her husband, Tom, a lobster fisherman

in Newport Harbor.

“We’re not trying to kill the project, but we do have a problem with the

added runoff into Orange County’s last pristine beach.”

-- Garry Brown, of the Newport Beach-based Orange County Coastkeeper, on

the Irvine Co.’s housing development above Crystal Cove.

“Are people going to be voting every three months? How are we going to

pay for these elections?”

-- Councilman Dennis O’Neil, on the proposed Greenlight initiative.

“There may be an extra procedure [in voting on smaller projects], but

that is the price you pay for getting the big ones.”

-- Greenlight initiative proponent Phil Arst, on news residents may have

to vote more often than anticipated.

“But we are quiet, respectful and aware of our neighbors. We live quite

conservatively.”

-- Nicole, a 36-year-old inmate at House of Sarah, a halfway house in

Costa Mesa, on neighbors’ concerns about the facility.

“It’s so frustrating to go through this, especially since we are still

trying to heal.”

-- Sheryl Hawkinson, owner of the Southcoast Early Childhood Learning

Center, where two children were killed last May, on more complaints from

neighbors.

“Now you will have people wondering if that intersection they went

through had one of these things.”

-- Newport Beach resident Brian Hawkins, who was surprised to learn about

new devices intended to catch more red-light runners.

“It’s just nice to get out on the water, being from Wyoming.”

-- Lorene Schmitz, who with her husband Bob and her four daughters, was

enjoying the salt breeze coming off the ocean during a recent whale

watching excursion.