NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“This is one of the worst summers in the last decade. The summer of

1995 is comparable to this one. But on a scale of one to 10, I’d give

this year a four. Pretty bad.”

-- Adam Wright, a Surfline swell forecaster, on how the waves have

been this summer

“It was a poor material. We’d wake up with red on our skin.”

-- Suzy Kvammen of Newport Beach, on the red Nazi flag material her

mother made clothes with after her family was deported to Germany during

World War II. Kvammen’s experience in a Texas internment camp is the

basis for a partly-fictional book, “Sing to Me Papa” by Pat McCune

Irvine.

“I had no idea my wife and I were going to get any grief at all. I

thought we were going to be heroes because we are bringing in more

owner-occupied houses and not apartments.”

-- Michael Schrock of Costa Mesa, on the negative reaction his plan to

build two more houses on his large Cecil Place lot got from neighbors at

a recent Planning Commission meeting. The rezoning application was

approved 3-2 and will be heard at the Sept. 17 City Council meeting.

“There’s a lot of bodies, but not a lot of desks and chairs. It added

a lot of frustration, but we managed pretty well.”

-- Jennifer Hodgson, a fourth-grade teacher at Rea Elementary School,

on the first day of school.

“It’s a cool city.”

-- James Sampson, vice president of marketing at Rip Curl, on why the

company chose Newport Beach to host its first-ever Rip Curl Pro, which

ends today

“We know how to handle her. But it’s a day-to-day learning process.

It’s like a new car. You hear those squeaks, and you need to find out

where they’re coming from.”

-- Lt. John Kidwell, commander of the Coast Guard cutter Narwhal, on

learning the new ship inside and out during its maiden voyage from New

Orleans to Newport Beach. The Narwhal arrived Wednesday.

“When you stop to think about it, there’s not going to be a lot of

documentation on undocumented workers.”

-- Allan Roeder, Costa Mesa city manager, on the lack of published or

accurate statistics on the number of undocumented workers in Costa Mesa.