“It’s a beautiful little island ... Some...

“It’s a beautiful little island ... Some of the things that I’ve

considered doing, as far as teaching up there, would be to teach a

class about island ecology, which is a class I already teach here at

OCC, but it seems very appropriate to teach an island ecology class

on an island.”

-- Dennis Kelly, an associate professor of marine science at

Orange Coast College, on the college’s January gift of an island off

British Columbia

“It’s highly uncommon for someone to pose as an attorney. Did

Goldstein do well as an attorney? He seemed to think so, although

other lawyers didn’t.”

-- Jeannie Masse, an assistant U.S. attorney, on Harold Goldstein,

a Newport Beach man FBI officials say has illegally posed as a lawyer

“I’m very excited. We need a good set of ribs on the bay.”

-- Don Webb, Newport Beach councilman, on a Tony Roma’s coming to

Mariner’s Mile, which is part of Webb’s City Council district

“The city has not come out and said what this is going to do for

us. What they’re setting up is this elaborate structure that’s

getting locked in. It’s like ‘ready, aim, fire’ and it’s terrorizing

the hell out of these people because all they see is the misery [of

the plan].”

-- Roger MacGregor, owner of MacGregor Yachts in Costa Mesa, on

the larger number of Westside business owners that showed up to a

Costa Mesa Redevelopment Agency meeting to find out more about a city

redevelopment project that will include them

“It was really great and I really liked it. It’s like, don’t laugh

at me because someone else could laugh at you.”

-- Josh Jordan, a Mariners Elementary fourth-grader, on the

message that Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary conveyed through

his songs for “Operation Respect” earlier this week