NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“If their plan is to upgrade and update and correct the maladies of the location and help us with some marketing, that would be the best thing I could hope for.”

? Monica Warthen, owner of Mama Mia Italian Restaurant, on the sale of Lido Marina Village; Warthen said her lease doesn’t end until 2009.

“These are going to be the starters, the young families getting started, the singles, the couples. In all, when I looked at this project, I saw a little bit of the future.”

? Bill Perkins, Costa Mesa planning commission chairman, on an 890-unit gated apartment complex being proposed by the Irvine Co.

“It’s totally the talk of Martinez.”

? Eva Greenhouse, who works at the Martinez Marina where restaurateur Rick Parker was planning to move the glass-bottomed Phoenix that had been a tour boat in Newport Harbor for more than a decade; the boat sank as Parker tried to pilot it up to Martinez, near Oakland.

“Usually these are serial auto thieves, and you make an arrest and the numbers drop.”

? John Hensley, Costa Mesa Police chief, on FBI crime statistics and how the department reacted to them

“I just want to do whatever possible to continue the direction of the council, and I don’t want to split any votes.”

? Jim Fisler, Costa Mesa planning commissioner, who is among candidates for City Council deciding whether to run