NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“We’re seeking some kind of relief from a total banning of pets.”

-- Dave Hubert of Newport Coast, a regular with his pet at the park at

San Joaquin Hills Road near Newport Ridge Drive, on why he and about

seven other residents met with Merit Property Management, which owns the

park and sent out the notices telling residents that it would no longer

allow dogs there on or off leashes. The residents plan to work with the

company to find a compromise.

“Every now and then, we make the patient hostile to keep [the

students] on their toes.”

-- Michael Prislin, on the surprises he has in store for the UC Irvine

medical students who take his Patient/Doctor II class, which is designed

to familiarize students with communicating, performing physical exams and

clinical reasoning-analyzing patient problems to obtain consistent

findings.

“The way I look at it, I want to be a Reaganette. I see Reagan as a

human being who realized that power was corrupt and if you didn’t have a

heart, you were sunk.”

-- Edie Bukewihge, one of eight Republican challengers to Democratic

Gov. Gray Davis, on her political role model. The 52-year-old Newport

Beach native is a longshot in the race for the Republican nomination,

which will be decided by voters in the state’s closed primary March 5.

“I don’t think there’s a park in the city you can go into that doesn’t

have damage and injuries from people playing basketball, baseball,

soccer, tennis. Somehow, we take a different approach with skateboarding.

We punish the sport, punish all the participants in the sport.”

-- Mike Kranzley, a Newport Beach planning commissioner addressing the

city council as a resident and father on a revised ordinance that adds

certain areas of city parks to the list of places already off limits to

skateboarders

“There’s definitely a skateboarding subculture -- a culture of

defiance.”

-- Tod Ridgeway, mayor of Newport Beach, on part of why he agreed with

the ordinance, which passed unanimously Tuesday.

“Maybe they think it’s modern art or something, I don’t know. But I’m

very, very curious.”

-- Bill Morris, Costa Mesa public services director, on the more than

40 padlocks that were cut off of a fence on the Bay Street bridge

Thursday by Caltrans maintenance workers.

“The play reflects life, and life is not always simple or easy.”

-- Annie Loui, professor at UC Irvine, on why she chose to put on a

production of Carlo Gozzi’s “Love of Three Oranges.” The play, on stage

at UCI through Saturday, is the story of a hypochondriac prince who is

cursed by a witch to love three oranges and search for them to the ends

of the Earth.