A. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
Aunt
Palm
ChildrenSpeaker 2
Estate
Luggage
WristSpeaker 3
Villa
Owl
MouthSpeaker 4
Lighter
Antlers
DetectiveSpeaker 5
Ship
Brother
RabbitSpeaker 6
Ears
Police
BoySpeaker 7
Cane
Crow
Car
Round 2
Speaker 1
self-discipline
Ego
DisquietSpeaker 2
reason
Silliness
LieSpeaker 3
thought
Movement
sophisticationSpeaker 4
Contentment
Worry
miserySpeaker 5
Restoration
Death
LibertySpeaker 6
Defeat
Wariness
helpfulnessSpeaker 7
Intelligence
graciousness
Care
Round 3
Speaker 1
Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden. --Irish proverb
The grass is always greener on the other side
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 2
He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad man himself. --African proverb
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
You cannot build a house for last year’s summer. --Ethiopian proverbSpeaker 3
Only one who can swallow an insult is a man. --Chinese Proverb
Don't put the cart before the horse.
A rising tide lifts all boats.Speaker 4
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Necessity is the mother of invention
There is truth in wine.Speaker 5
The longest mile is the last mile home.
A book is a pocket garden. --Chinese Proverb
Half a loaf is better than none.Speaker 6
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet. --Chinese Proverb
Blood is thicker than waterSpeaker 7
One who bathes willingly with cold water doesn’t feel the cold. --Fipa proverb
A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea. --Kenyan proverb
Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily. --Chinese Proverb
Elim 1: A/B - Prelim 2: J
Speaker 1
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. --Benjamin Franklin
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. --Abigail Adams
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience. --Barbra StreisandSpeaker 2
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. --Aldous Huxley
I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day --Hercules
“The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly." --— Robert Anton WilsonSpeaker 3
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.Speaker 4
If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. --Anne Frank
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.Speaker 5
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. --Benjamin Franklin
The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will. --Chuck Palahniuk
“It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." --— Thomas SowellSpeaker 6
"No artist is ever completely free, and art does not necessarily thrive as it becomes less constrained.” --— Andrew Sarris
It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do! --Fred Rogers
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort. --Fred RogersSpeaker 7
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not. --Germany Kent
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. --Benjamin Franklin
For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves. --Anne Heche
Elim 2 A/B
Speaker 1
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. --Albert Einstein
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. --Lucretia Mott
Believe you can and you're halfway there.Speaker 2
“Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.” --— Ludwig von Mises
Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our viewpoint. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. --Bruce LeeSpeaker 3
"You snooze, you lose. I have snost and lost.” --— Mike Doughty
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
"Silence are the words we were never intended to say.” --— Poesie NoireSpeaker 4
“Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
To infinity and beyond!
"Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” --— Marcus AureliusSpeaker 5
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. --Andrew Jackson
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.Speaker 6
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Remember that credit is money. --Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness. --Janisse RaySpeaker 7
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. --Alice Walker
“We may hate each other, but let’s at least quit pretending we hate hating each other; we love hating each other.” --— Tim Kreider
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. --Alice Walker
TBA
Speaker 1
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” --— Alan Moore
Real strength has to do with helping others. --Fred Rogers
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 2
Governments never learn. Only people learn. --Milton Friedman
Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. --AesopSpeaker 3
Destiny helps people believe there's an order to this horseshit. --Geralt of Rivia
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor. --Benjamin Franklin
When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 4
Force always attracts men of low morality. --Albert Einstein
“I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that one steps near and begins to speak." --— Rumi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. --Mahatma GandhiSpeaker 5
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” --— Buddha, 583-463 B.C.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy
“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.” --— Andy WeirSpeaker 6
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble
You manage things; you lead people.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. --Andrew CarnegieSpeaker 7
“Whatever lens you view the world through, becomes your reality. If you believe that everybody is out to get you and the whole system is designed to oppress you, then you'll find infinite evidence to confirm your belief.” --— Zuby
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. --Barbara Jordan
“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” --— Milton Friedman