NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“You burn yourself constantly. I burn myself every night and most

every day. You just accidentally touch something, but you get used to

it.”

-- Steven McManus of Costa Mesa, on his job as a welder.

“Some of these guys may want to become pilots. No time like the

present to get them hooked.”

-- Greg Sequeira, president of the Orange County Flight Center, on why

he donated time, fuel and planes to help reward the Dodgers, a Pony

baseball team, after they won the Bronco Division championship.

“Some people have to have their coffee. I have to have my swim.”

-- Ted Bandaruk, pool manager and swim coach for the Harbor View

Community Assn., on swimming, which he only misses during the winter when

he skis at Tahoe. Bandaruk is also head water polo coach for the Corona

del Mar junior water polo club, as well as the Newport Beach aquatics

club.

“I miss her smile, her love of life.”

-- Rick Johns of Newport Beach, on his late wife, Rosalind Williams,

who died last June at age 55 after a battle with cancer. Williams was the

president and chief executive officer of the Newport Beach Conference and

Visitors Bureau.

“A lot of summer I spend cleaning up. For some reason, there are a lot

of parties.”

-- Margie Donrey, a West Newport Beach resident, on what the warm

weather season brings to her neighborhood.

“All my family were farmers, and I didn’t like the farm.”

-- Ed Hemphill of Newport Beach, on why he decided to go into the shoe

business. Hemphill celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday.

“What you heard in there was not the whole story.”

-- Chris Steel, Costa Mesa councilman, adding that the prosecution

took statements he had made out of context during a Thursday pretrial

hearing. Steel is charged with two felony counts of perjury stemming from

problems with his nomination papers.