NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“This is where I could come to get away. I could step on the ice and

feel free. . . .They treated me, and everyone else, like family here. And

already you can see the ice is melting.”

-- Sarah Buba, 19, speaking about Costa Mesa’s Ice Chalet, which

closed its doors Jan. 28.

“These are all people. They cry. They believe. They all have feelings.

It’s a good way to get to know them.”

-- Steve Bromberg, Newport Beach city councilman, on spending time

with his fellow council members at a city retreat Jan. 27.

“This proposal is not any better than the last one.”

-- Robin Leffler, a Mesa Verde Community Inc. board member, commenting

on CJ Segerstrom & Sons’ revised Home Ranch proposal.

“ETRPA wanted to put the county on notice. We wanted to insist that

they follow the rules.”

-- Meg Waters, spokesperson for the El Toro Reuse Planning Authority,

on why the group sued Orange County in 1998 over the hiring of a law

firm. The county and ETRPA announced Tuesday that they settled the suit.

“I believe it’s nothing more than South County using trench warfare

and terrorist activity to challenge any kind of development at El Toro of

any kind. It’s mean-spirited.”

-- Gary Proctor, Newport Beach councilman, on ETRPA filing the suit in

the first place.

“He was driven by happiness.”

-- Matt Evans remembering brother Brad Evans, a former Corona del Mar

High School basketball player who died Jan. 28 in an Oakland house fire.

Brad Evans was 23.

“If the cottages are vacated, it would be destruction by abandonment.”

-- Al Willinger, Crystal Cove resident, on the state parks department

taking the first step to evict tenants from the cottages at Crystal Cove

State Park Beach so it can replace aging septic tanks.

“The nice thing is that they don’t have to clean the bathrooms. They

have maid service.”

-- Battalion Chief Ron Sutherland speaking about the Newport Beach

firefighters stationed at the Radisson hotel in order to provide faster

response times to the city’s airport area and Santa Ana Heights.