A. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:45 am
Speaker 1
Round I
SPEAKER 1
“Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.” - Fran Lebowitz
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.” - Irish Proverb
“Sleeping is not time wasting.” - Mike Wilson
Speaker 2
“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.” - Bill Cosby
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” - Anthony Burgess
“Like all other forms of pleasure, sleep may become a passion.” – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Speaker 3
“You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare, either way i don’t wanna wake up from you.” - Beyoncé Knowles
“Sleep is the best meditation.” - Dalai Lama
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” - Albert Camus
Speaker 4
“Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.” - Conor Oberst
“But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.” - Mary A. Ward
“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” - Baltasar Gracian
Speaker 5
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." - Carrie Snow
“Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheet." - Leah Stussy
"I'll sleep when I'm dead.” - Warren Zevon
Speaker 6
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” — Ernest Hemingway
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.” -— Gillian Flynn, Gone Gir
“Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.” — Franz Kafka
Round II - 10:00 am
Speaker 1
“Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.”
-Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi
“Health food makes me sick.” - Calvin Trillin
“Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible. - Dorothy Draper
Speaker 2
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” - George Bernard Shaw
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” - James Beard
“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”
- Julia Child
Speaker 3
“It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.” - Kirby Larson
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
- M. F. K. Fisher
“Never eat more than you can lift.” - Miss Piggy
Speaker 4
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
- Orson Welles
“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.” – Socrates
“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.” - Sheila Graham
Speaker 5
“If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.” - Sefer Hasidim
“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.” - Ronald Reagan
“What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.” - Lucretius
Speaker 6
“Hunger never saw bad bread.” - Benjamin Franklin
"Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution." - Irwin Van Grove
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Round III - 11:15 pm
Speaker 1
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.” - Bible, 1 Timothy v. 23.
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” - Henny Youngman
“It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.” - Heraclitus
Speaker 2
“One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.” - Nancy Astor
“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.” - Oscar Levant
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
- Ernest Hemingway
Speaker 3
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.” – Robert Benchley
Speaker 4
“What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!” – George Gordon
“I feel bad for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” – Frank Sinatra
“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.” – Tom Waits
Speaker 5
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” – Louis Pasteur
“Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we’re not poets.” – Dudley Moore
“Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.” – Ben Jonson
Speaker 6
“I like beer.” – Bret Kavanagh
“He that drinks fast, pays slow.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Never chase anything but drinks and dreams.” – Unknown