B. Open IMP Event Prompts

Round 1 - 12:00 pm

  1. Speaker 1


    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”—Oscar Wilde

    “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” —Jerry Seinfeld 

  2. Speaker 2


    “If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” —Judith Martin

    “Misers are no fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.” —Tom Snyder 

  3. Speaker 3


    “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” —Jerry Seinfeld

    "It is our choices that show we truly are far more than our abilities." -J.K. Rowling

  4. Speaker 4


    “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” —Alice Walker 

    “Every cynic is a sentimentalist under the skin.” —Louis L’Amour

  5. Speaker 5


    “Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to.” —Mark Twain

    “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton 

  6. Speaker 6


    “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” —B.B. King

    “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” —Fran Lebowitz

Round 2 - 1:15

  1. Speaker 1


    “Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.” —Quentin Crisp

    “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” —Walter Lippmann

  2. Speaker 2


    “There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.” —Clare Boothe Luce 

    “People ask me sometimes… When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is, When there are nine.” RBG

  3. Speaker 3


    “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” —J.K. Rowling

    “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” —W.C. Fields

  4. Speaker 4


    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us—and sometimes, they win.” —Stephen King 

    “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” —Harry Ruby 

  5. Speaker 5


    "Only through suffering can we find ourselves." -Fyodor Dostoevsky

    "it gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier— but you got to do it every day— that's the hard part. " -Bo Jack Horseman

  6. Speaker 6


    "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Fyodor Dostoevsky

    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” -CS Lewis

Finals - 2:45 pm

  1. Speaker 1


    “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. Lewis

    “I don't perform. Seals perform.”
    ― Morrissey

  2. Speaker 2


    “Pain comes strangely, but is never a stranger.”
    ― Anthony Liccione

    "It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up. -Volodymyr Zelensky

     

  3. Speaker 3


    "Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God." -Volodymyr Zelensky

    “Time will explain.” -Jane Austen

     

  4. Speaker 4


    "I do not try to play a role. I feel good about myself and saying what I think." -Volodymyr Zelensky

    "The jungle is dark but full of diamonds." -Arthur Miller

  5. Speaker 5


    “I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
    ― William Faulkner

    “Beware the nation in which one-man rules, for it is a nation of slaves.” ― Simón Bolívar

  6. Speaker 6


    “Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
    ― William Faulkner

    “Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.”― Bertrand Russell