NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“It was the most horrific, horrendous thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

We watched the cloud envelop Manhattan and the river. I’ll never forget

it as long as I live.”

-- Lyle Davis, a Newport Beach resident, on seeing the World Trade

Center collapse from across the Hudson. Davis was in Newark on business.

“Late night meetings affect our decision-making process the next day.”

-- Katrina Foley, chairwoman of the Costa Mesa Planning Commission, on

why the commission limited public comments at their Monday meeting.

“I have to get up and go to work too, but it is important for me to be

here and say what I feel. It should be important for them to hear it.”

-- Bryce Beuley, a Mesa Verde resident, on his opinion of the limited

comment period. Beuley stormed out of Monday’s Planning Commission

meeting in protest.

“We are all Americans, and we are all concerned about what happened .

. . . We are all part of the large family of the victims of these

cowardly acts.”

-- Haipham A. Bundakji, chairman of the public relations department of

the Islamic Society of Orange County, on the terrorist attacks Tuesday.

“This event has been compared to Pearl Harbor. But when you take an

American jet plane full of passengers and turn it into a weapon and hit a

building with thousands of people in it with the intent of hurting them,

you wonder where the humanity has gone.”

-- Rabbi Marc Rubenstein of Temple Isaiah, reacting to the destruction

of the World Trade Center in New York City.

“I read a lot of books. There’s not a novel which dares to go as far

as this because nobody would believe it.”

-- Assemblyman John Campbell [R-Irvine], on the tragedy.

“It’s going to be especially difficult to talk about sweetness with

the taste of ashes in our mouth.”

-- Rabbi Mark Miller of Temple Bat Yahm, on how Tuesday’s tragedy will

affect Rosh Hashana, Jewish New Year, which starts Monday at sundown.

“I may not have been born here, but I am willing to die for this

country.”

-- George Sandoval of Costa Mesa, on his willingness to serve.

Sandoval is a Marine reservist who was born in Mexico.

“All in all, it looks like it has something for everyone. It seems to

be very close to what the majority of the people are talking about.”

-- Laura Davick, founder of the Alliance to Rescue Crystal Cove, on

California State Parks’ preliminary proposal to restore the cottages at

Crystal Cove State Park. The plan includes overnight rentals and a mix of

artistic, scientific and other uses.