A CENTER-CUT, NO-FAT REVIEW OF WHAT WAS SAID THIS PAST WEEK BY FOLKS THE WORLD OVER AND RIGHT AT HOME “I’m happy with how practice has gone. I’m set to get people out to the pier who have never seen anything like this before.” — Ronnie Renner, freestyle dirt bike rider, speaking about his Guinness World Record attempt at the Santa Monica Pier.
“This is grossly unfair, to make us foot the bill for other people.” — Jeff Segal of Segal Enterprises, regarding a new assessment district that is expected to raise as much as $3.6 million annually for the next 20 years to help pay for cleaner streets and alleys, homeless outreach, a marketing campaign and ambassadors to help guide tourists and improve public safety in the downtown area.
“You don’t replace kids like that.” — Santa Monica High School football head coach Zach Cuda, regarding the departure of star quarterback Ryan Katz.
“Changing diapers wasn’t on the to-do list. Getting laid without consequences was more my area of interest. Nature has revised my script, and I find it to be a terrifyingly wonderful prospect. Although difficult for me to imagine, soon I will be sharing a new series of adventures with a child in my own image.” — SMDP columnist Ryan Hyatt writing about fatherhood in “Dispatches from Dystopia.”
“Since I was fairly certain I have at no time passed myself off to anyone as someone who has four figures to drop on a single meal, I wondered next if word had spread about my performance in the Great Books seminar in which I participated this winter, and my extraordinary analysis skills were being sought after as a result. But then I thought about how I felt I was being out-Plato-ed, out-Aristotle-ed and just about out-everyone else-ed throughout the entire session. The post-college fantasy of taking a class with lots of reading and none of the homework and term papers was fabulous. The reality is that a full-time job and a family seriously impede any really deep, detailed, philosophical reading and interpretations.” — SMDP columnist By Meredith C. Carroll, writing in “Meredith Pro Tem.”
“People all over Los Angeles and other parts of the state are flocking to public transit because of spiraling, out of control gas prices.” — Stephanie Negriff, director of Big Blue Bus.
“After listening to parents, assessing our needs and interviewing four highly qualified applicants, we are thrilled to have Tim join our team in Santa Monica-Malibu.” — School Board President Oscar de la Torre regarding the hiring of Tim Cuneo as the district’s interim superintendent.
Quotations captured and compiled with care by DANIEL ARCHULETA.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 12, 2008. Read the original PDF.