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# Cecelia Ibru

Cecilia Ibru (born 22 March 1946) is the former managing director and chief executive officer of Oceanic Bank.[1] She was Nigeria's first female bank CEO and was dubbed the first Lady of the Nigerian banking industry[2][3]

## Quotes

* ""You find that when people knock you down, they don’t expect you to get up again. So, when you get up, they have mixed feelings,”"
* ""God raised other people to help me.""
* "". I believe that the God who has seen me through till today will continue to do so until He comes.""
# Caucher Birkar

Caucher Birkar (born July 1978, in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, Iran, as Fereydon Derakhshani فریدون درخشانی) is an Iranian mathematician and a professor at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model problem".

## Quotes
### "An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)

Kevin Hartnett (1 August 2018), "An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations", Quanta Magazine.
* In Tehran university, at the math club, where I was studying the pictures of Fields medalists were lining the walls. I looked at them and said to myself, ‘Will I ever meet one of these people?’ At that time in Iran, I couldn’t even know that I’d be able to go to the West.
* To go from the point that I didn’t imagine meeting these people to the point where someday I hold a medal myself — I just couldn’t imagine that this would come true.
* I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new.
# Caulerpa taxifolia

Caulerpa taxifolia is a species of green seaweed, an alga of the genus Caulerpa, native to tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, LIndian Ocean, and Caribbean Sea. The species name taxifolia arises from the resemblance of its leaf-like fronds to those of the yew (Taxus). A strain of the species bred for use in aquariums has established non-native populations in waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the United States, and Australia.

## Quotes

* As it stands, it's the monster from hell, about which nobody knows what to do.
** Jeremy Jackson, How we wrecked the ocean (April 2010) Ted
# Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist, known for her works like PS, I Love You; Where Rainbows End; and If You Could See Me Now. Born in Dublin, Ahern is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as major motion films. The short story collection Roar has been adapted as a series for Apple TV+.

## Quotes

* ...I will talk about everything else but I could not tell you about myself. Which is probably why I write...
* ...I don’t have small worries, I have big worries. Like the end of the world...
** Cecelia Ahern: ‘I don’t have small worries, I have big worries. Like the end of the world’
* ...I hope everyone can identify and laugh and cry over what could be their own inner roar – a grunt of frustration at being misunderstood, misrepresented, at feeling intimidated or overwhelmed – the kind of normal things you can feel in one day...
** Author Cecelia Ahern on what makes her Roar
# Bill Shankly

William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football player and manager, who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool.

## Quotes

* A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
** Quoted by John Toshack in Kevin McCarra, "How Benítez built Liverpool," The Guardian (2006-01-21)
* At a football club, there's a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters.
** "Bill Shankly: Life, death and football", The Guardian (2009-10-18)
* Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'.
** An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981
* The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
** Powley, Adam; Gillan, Robert (2015). Shankly's Village: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Glenbuck and its Famous Footballing Sons. Worthing, UK: Pitch. ISBN 9781785310706. OCLC 931595421. Retrieved on 2016-08-18.

## Disputed

* Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
** Attributed to Shankly in 2013 , thirty years after Shankly's death. However, very similar sayings are found anonymously from the late twentieth-century. Harrington and Kavanagh, Prayer for Parish Groups: Preparing and Leading Prayer for Group Meetings, p. 32, 1998

## External links

* It's Not Your Leg Son - Book of Shankly Quotes pub. Tangent Books
# Bill Skarsgård

Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård (born 9 August 1990) is a Swedish actor.

## Quotes

* I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. I think you have to feel guilty about it. I think it makes you a better person to keep reminding yourself.
** Interview: Bill Skarsgård (June 5, 2017)
* I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.
** Interview: Bill Skarsgård (June 5, 2017)
* You almost create this infinite universe for the character that you’re playing and then you’re compromising it into the story that you’re doing. Whatever character you’re playing, you kind of explore endlessly more than what’s on the page. You use that exploration to do the performance that’s in the film, but hopefully, people will see all that work and preparation in those little glimpses of scenes and moments. Oh, there’s something there. There’s so much more happening with this character.
** Bill Skarsgard on ‘IT’ and Tapping into His Fears to Create a Terrifying New Pennywise (July 28, 2017)
# Bill Walton

William Theodore Walton III (November 5, 1952 – May 27, 2024) was an American retired basketball player and television sportscaster.

## Quotes

* I’ve had 37 orthopedic operations. I ground my feet up into dust. I’ve got a new knee. I‘ve got a new spine. I’m the lucky one... I never thought going through all of it that I would be healthy at the end. And I almost wasn’t.
** "The Thing Bill Walton Still Can't Forgive Himself For", interview with GQ (March 26, 2016).

## Quotes about Walton

* As usual, the vegetarian tiger played as if he had dined on red meat all week: as if he had slept sweetly and spent all his waking hours on the practice court: as if his knees were made of steel cables; as if his only icons were the ball and the hoop.
** "Sport: Walton: Basketball's Vegetarian Tiger", TIME (February 25, 1974).
* The nights those guys aren't going good and Bill Walton's needed to do something else, he'll do that. He's the most unselfish star player I ever saw [sic].
** Houston head coach Del Harris, "Rebounding Walton guides Clippers to 105-97 victory", USA Today (January 12, 1983), page 7C.
* When future basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Walton was winning NBA championships for the Portland Trail Blazers and others, he was the best-known vegetarian in sports. A 1974 Time magazine article dubbed him “Basketball’s Vegetarian Tiger.” But folks wondered how he had such stamina without eating meat. He answered critics saying the vegetarian diet made him stronger. A recent study 40-some years later bolsters his claim.
** Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, "The docs: The magic of green leafy veggies", Idaho Statesman (March 11, 2016).
# Bill Warner (writer)

Bill Warner (1941 births–) is an international speaker, author, and video blogger.

## Quotes

* Islam does not reach a balance point with the native civilization; it dominates and annihilates the indigenous culture over time. This process of total civilizational domination is the Law of Islamic Saturation. The doctrine calls for jihad to never cease until the native population submits to the Sharia. As time goes on, the Sharia brings about submission to Islam. The doctrine is totalitarian, so the result is totalitarian. Islam is the most successful totalitarian system in history. There are post-Communist societies and post-Nazi societies but, there are no post Islamic societies.
** Political Islam, a Totalitarian Doctrine (April 4 2017)

## See also

* Frank Gaffney
* Raymond Ibrahim
* Chuck Hustmyre
# Bill Viola

Bill Viola (January 25, 1951 – July 12, 2024) was an American video artist. His exhibition profile, which includes the Guggenheim Berlin, Guggenheim New York, Getty Center, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, marks him as a major artist, at least by standards of public fame and repute.

## Quotes

* When I started in video I was one of two or three dozen video artists in 1970. And now, to paraphrase Andy Warhol, everyone's a video artist. Video, through your cellphone and camcorder, has become a form of speech, and speech is not James Joyce. It's great, and to be celebrated, but it has to find its own level.
** Bill Viola, in: Leo Benedictus. "Tomorrow's world," in; The Guardian, Wednesday 12 July 2006.
# Bill Withers

William Harrison Withers Jr. (4 July 1938 – 30 March 2020) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He recorded several major hits, won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for six more. Withers worked as a professional musician for just 15 years, from 1970 to 1985, after which he moved on to other occupations. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

## Quotes

* Ain't no sunshine when she's gone It's not warm when she's away Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long Anytime she's goes away
** "Ain't No Sunshine", on Just as I Am (1971) · 1972 performance
* And I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know Hey I oughta leave the young thing alone But ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
** "Ain't No Sunshine", on Just as I Am (1971)
* Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there's always tomorrow.
** "Lean on Me", on Still Bill (1972) Live performance (1972) · Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance (2015)
* Lean on me, when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on.
** "Lean on Me", on Still Bill (1972)

### Rollingstone interview (2015)

    "Bill Withers : The Soul Man Who Walked Away", Rollingstone (14 April 2015)
* I grew up in the age of Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson … It was a time where a fat, ugly broad that could sing had value. Now everything is about image. It’s not poetry. This just isn’t my time.
* What few songs I wrote during my brief career, there ain’t a genre that somebody didn’t record them in. I’m not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with. I don’t think I’ve done bad for a guy from Slab Fork, West Virginia.
* My first goal was, I didn’t want to be a cook or a steward … So I went to aircraft-mechanic school. I still had to prove to people that thought I was genetically inferior that I wasn’t too stupid to drain the oil out of an airplane.
** On entering the US Navy in 1956.

## External links

* Official website
* "Bill Withers" at Discogs
* Bill Withers on IMDb
* Biography at Soultracks.com
* Still Bill documentary
# Bill Trader

Bill Trader (11 May 1922 - 26 October 2003) was an American song-writer and singer most famous for writing the ballad "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" which became a hit for Hank Snow, Jo Stafford and Elvis Presley and has since been covered by numerous other artists.

## Quotes
### (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I (1952)

    First published in 1952 as performed by Hank Snow, this ballad has since become covered by many other artists: Dean Martin · Jo Stafford · Jim Reeves · Elvis Presley · Elvis Live performance · Petula Clark's French version · Bob Dylan · Baillie and the Boys
* Pardon me, if I'm sentimental When we say goodbye , Don't be angry with me should I cry. When you're gone, yet I'll dream A little dream as years go by… Now and then there's a fool such as I.
* Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you. You taught me how to love And now you say that we are through. I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear Until the day I die Now and then there's a fool such as I.

## Quotes about Trader

* The man who wrote this classic was Bill Trader and he actually passed away in 2003 in South Carolina. Not a bad run from the sound of it. Mark Matthews continues the story by bringing in an old musician friend of Bill’s named Bud Orr. As Bud tells it, Bill couldn’t read or write music and would often bring him songs and for five bucks Bud would write out a lead sheet for him. Bill would then sell try to sell them in Nashville.
** Iaan Hughes, in The Real Mr. Heartache: "Fools Such As I"

## External links

* Bill Trader at All Music
* The Real Mr. Heartache: "Fools Such As I" by Iaan Hughes
* Profile at Find A Grave
* Notes on the history of "A Fool Such As I" in "Bob Dylan's Early "Field Recordings" 1961-87" at Searching for a Gem
# Bolu Babalola

Bolu Babalola (born 24 February 1991) is a British Nigerian author, screenwriter, and journalist.

## Quotes
### Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold (2020)

* They enjoyed the glamour but not the gore, not knowing that the gore was what gave the glamour its gleam.
* Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be.
* Time was constructed with love in mind. / Time and love are intertwined, they are both measures of life, they are the two clocks.
* Love is the prism through which I view the world. I truly believe it binds and propels us. This isn’t a naive denial of the darkness that we know exists in the world; rather it is a refusal to allow the devastation, the horror, or the heartache to consume us.
* Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free.
* Time and love are intertwined, they are both measures of life, they are the two clocks. And, for love to operate as it should, it is imperative that the timing should be right.
* I couldn’t believe I was letting my ex-boyfriend risk the security of my bag. Money before honeys. No. Men weren’t honeys. Scratch that. Fees before The D. Contracts before Phone Contacts. Those were all terrible and I cannot believe someone is paying me to write. I opened up Instagram to distract myself.
* I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him.
* Pieces of me fell into place. I was growing into what I should be. We were growing. It wasn't as if our love built me, it's that it galvanized me, making me stronger because he saw me fully, the best and worst parts.
* Time was constructed with love in mind.
* Eros pulled Psy so close to him there was no real demarcation between her heartbeat and his, and when they kissed, with Olympus beneath their feet and the sky surrounding them, Eros felt as if what they had was not just above the world as they knew it, but beyond it, out of its touch, its scope, itself a propelling energy that catapulted and vacuumed them into their own universe.
# Bolanle olukanni

Bolanle Olukanni is a TV presenter popularly known for hosting Moments with Mo on DStv and Project Fame West Africa.

## Quotes

* "Our country is beyond repair at this rate. Diezani who has stolen billions and has the bloody balls to give a speech on how Yahoo boys are destroying Nigeria . And she knows she can do this and nothing will happen to her because our government is weak! And joke."
** Reacting to Diezani Madueke for making comments on Yahoo boys.
* That was the main reason. I needed to be back home so that I could be part of the country development. we are at such a crucial stage in our history and I want to be part of the people and form and push Nigeria to its full potential
** Her answer during an interview on what motivated her decision on coming back to Nigeria.
* "A single mother is raising a child alone due to a variety of reasons- abandonment, broken relationship, out of choice whereas a widow is in her circumstance due to death of a spouse. Widows are dealing with grief, frustration, neglect and also the immense pressure of being the sole caregiver for their households."
** Her response when asked the difference between a single mother and widow.
# Bolesław Prus

Bolesław Prus was the pen-name of Aleksander Głowacki (August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), a Polish journalist and novelist known as the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature.

## Quotes

* Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
** Pharaoh (1894–1895)
* A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
** The Doll (1887–1889)
* And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles.
** The Doll
* For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
** The Doll
* In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!... I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman... He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess... And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all...
** The Doll
* Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.
** The Doll
* Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
** The Doll
* There are neither graves nor death in Nature; there are various forms of existence, some of which enable us to be chemists, others only chemical substances.
** The Doll
* ‘There are two men in me,’ he thought, ‘one quite sensible, the other a lunatic. But I am not concerned with that any longer... What shall I do, though, if the sensible man wins?’
** The Doll
* Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh has a stroke...
** The Doll
* Nature has done well and wisely, in not permitting a man to live forever and in bringing into the world ever new generations. An old person is a used-up machine [... He] has too many dogmas to [...] easily [...] believe in a new truth [...]; too many sympathies and antipathies [...] for him to come to love something unfamiliar; [...] too many habits to be able to settle on new ways. Let us add suspiciousness — the fruit of bitter experiences; a pessimism inseparable from all manner of disappointments; and finally, a general decline of powers from exhaustion [...].
** "Oda do młodości" ["Ode to Youth"], 1905
# Bolognese proverbs

Bolognese is an Emilian dialect spoken in northern Italy.

## I

* Al mêdigh pietôus fa la piega verminôusa.
** English equivalent: Mild physician – putrid wounds.
** Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 710. ISBN 0415096243.

## L

* L'aquila en ciapa mòsch.
** English equivalent: Eagles don't catch flies.
** Meaning: "People of high rank are considered – or consider themselves – too important to deal with trivial things or lowly folk."
** Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-8160-6673-5. Retrieved on 25 August 2013.
** Strauss, Emanuel (1994). "230". Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs. Routledge. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-136-78978-6.
* La comodità fa l hom ladr.
** English equivalent: Opportunity creates the thief.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "572, Gelegenheid" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. I. p. 296.

## N

* N ' cumprar gatt in sacc.
** English equivalent: To buy a pig in a poke.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld (1875). "269, Sacke" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. Fries. p. 150.
* N dedar i can, ch dormen .
** English equivalent: Let sleeping dogs lie.
** Ida; Otto (1875). "599, wecken" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen vergleichend zusammengestellt von Ida von Duringsfeld und Otto Freihern von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld. II. pp. 334–335.

## U

* Un poc d’zug é po bell.
** English equivalent: Leave a jest when it pleases you best.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "122, aufhören" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. p. 59-60.

## See also

* Corsican proverbs
* Emilian proverbs
* Italian proverbs
* Lombard proverbs
* Milanese proverbs
* Neapolitan proverbs
* Northern Italian proverbs
* Piedmontese proverbs
* Romagnol proverbs
* Romanesco proverbs
* Sardinian proverbs
* Sicilian proverbs
* Tristine proverbs ‎
* Tuscan proverbs
* Venetian Proverbs
# Daffodils

Daffodil is an informal name for the Narcissus, a type of flower.

## Sourced

* If thou hast a loaf of bread, sell half and buy the flowers of the narcissus; for bread nourisheth the body, but the flowers of the narcissus the soul.
** Oswald Crawfurd, Round the Calendar in Portugal (1890), p. 114, quoting Mohammed.
* Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
** William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 3, line 118.
* When the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.
** Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part III, Stanza 1.

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 155.
* The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green.
** William Cullen Bryant, An Invitation to the Country.
* What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
** Austin Dobson, To Daffodils.
* Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained its noone. * * * * * We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything.
** Robert Herrick, Daffadills.
* When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me, Guesse I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.
** Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), Divination by a Daffadill.
* "O fateful flower beside the rill— The Daffodil, the daffodil!"
** Jean Ingelow, Persephone, Stanza 16.
* It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl calls "to-whoo"! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.
** Clinton Scollard, Daffodil Time.
* O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill, Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill, And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!
** Aubrey De Vere, Ode to the Daffodil.
* Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.
** Anna Warner, Daffy-Down-Dilly.
* There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.
** Oscar Wilde, The Burden of Stys.
* A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
** William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.