NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“Oh, but he hated walking.”

-- Dorothy-Jo Swanson reminiscing about her late husband, Harold, who

was Corona del Mar’s first mail carrier. Harold Swanson passed away Feb.

8 at age 85.

“Do you Olive take Tino to be your stud puppy and Dog Chow dog?”

-- The wedding vows of pugs Olive and Tino at a canine wedding

fund-raiser Feb. 10 to benefit Little Angels Pug Rescue. Olive licked

Tino in assent.

“It’s actually pretty standard. I’ve seen a washing machine come out

of the river.”

-- Boyd Mickley, a Newport Beach lifeguard, on the debris that washed

onto the Newport Beach shoreline Monday from the Santa Ana River.

“ ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ is an elegant book, I thought. Life ain’t

always pretty and [sexual content] was just a brief thing. It didn’t

dominate the book.”

-- Jim Ferryman, Newport-Mesa school board trustee, on one of two

books fellow trustee Wendy Leece asked be withdrawn from a textbook list

because of content. On Tuesday, the board voted 5-2 in favor of keeping

the books on the list.

“I think you have overstepped the bounds of decency with these two

books.”

-- Barbara Whitacre, a grandmother, speaking at Tuesday’s Newport-Mesa

school board meeting.

“Oh yeah, we’re in the dark.”

-- Mike McGuire, principal of Ensign Middle School, on Monday’s midday

power outage at the school. The outage, which lasted more than half an

hour, was caused by a broken utility pole.

“I look forward to having something over there and, if it’s viable

office buildings, more power to them.”

-- Ed Fawcett, Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce chief executive, on the

sale of Pacific Federal Savings Plaza to Pasadena-based Hudson Properties

LLC. The plaza has been vacant for around 10 years.

“We’re just studying this thing to death.”

-- Dan Worthington, a Costa Mesa Sanitary District board member, on a

proposed program to standardize trash cans throughout the city.