NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“You get all kinds of people here. Trailer trash to Ph.Ds.”

-- Susan Levine, one of the founders of Top Cats & Tails, on the

group’s March 24 cat show at Orange County Fairgrounds.

“We have 120 traffic intersections. There is no way that we can

provide 120 generators. Nor can we place stop signs at every

intersection.”

-- Don Webb, Newport Beach public works director, on the city’s

concerns about how rolling blackouts would affect traffic lights.

“It had to happen sooner or later. The sales tax bubble has finally

burst.”

-- Dennis Danner, Newport Beach’s administrative services director, in

a memo talking about the February slow down in the city’s sales tax

growth.

“She’s everybody’s favorite. She really gets involved with the

families and she is not just a principal at a desk, but a principal in

her heart as well.”

-- Betty Storch, commenting on Sister Joanne Clare Gallagher, the

co-principal of the school at Our Lady Queen of Angels. Gallagher

celebrated her 50th year as a nun with a March 26 jubilee.

“I think this is ridiculous, I’m based in Costa Mesa and, in a year,

I’m going to have to change my bulk mail imprints to say Santa Ana. I

don’t want people to think I’m based in Santa Ana.”

-- Larry Weichman, a broker for Real Estaters in Costa Mesa, on the

U.S. Postal Service’s plan to shut down the Adams Avenue bulk mail

department on April 15. Customers will be transferred to another post

office on Sunflower Avenue in Santa Ana.

“Numbers are misleading. That’s why we don’t release them month to

month. The city’s overall crime rate is still down, as it has been for

the last 12 years.”

-- David Snowden, Costa Mesa police chief, on the surge of auto thefts

in February, which he said contributed to a 16.9% bump in the city’s

crime rate.

“My husband knows it’s important to me, that I can’t sit at home all

day watching soaps and eating bonbons.”

-- Sandy Meadows, Newport Beach Police Department’s volunteer of the

year, on how her family feels about her commitment to the department and

to Waldorf School of Orange County.

“It’s wonderful to see everybody again.”

-- David S. Ward, screenwriter, on how it felt to see cast and crew

from “The Sting” on Thursday at the Newport Beach Film Festival’s gala

opening. Ward won an Oscar in 1973 for the film, which was screened at

the festival.