B. Championship Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 9:30am PST

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 1 -- Speaker 1

    1 Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. --Oprah Winfrey

    2 Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. –Horace

    3 Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts.--Charles Dickens

  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 1 -- Speaker 2

    1 Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai

    2 In books lies the soul of the whole past time. --Thomas Carlyle

    3 Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. --Maureen Dowd

  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 1 -- Speaker 3

    1 The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. --Alexis Carrel

    2 Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. --Lillian Hellman

    3 Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  4. Speaker 4


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 1 -- Speaker 4

    1 Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history. –Ray Merritt

    2 Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching. –C.S. Lewis

    3 Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. --Howard Dietz

  5. Speaker 5


     

    2022 NOFC College -- Round 1 -- Speaker 5

    1 If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. –Dolly Parton

    2 One makes mistakes, that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. --Romain Rolland

     

    3 Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. --Benjamin Franklin

     

  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 1 -- Speaker 6

    1  Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. –James Baldwin

    2 The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through. --Morris West

    3 Love is a friendship set to music. –Joseph Campbell

  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 1 -- Speaker 7

    1 The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. --Karl Marx

    2 Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. --Herodotus

    3 Every child is born a genius. –Buckminster Fuller

Round 2 - 11:00am PST

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 2 -- Speaker 1

    1 Our ideals are our better selves. --Amos Bronson Alcott

    2 When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. --Victor Hugo

    3 It's communication - that's what theatre is all about. --Chita Rivera

  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 2 -- Speaker 2

    1 Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. --Ambrose Bierce

    2 Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. --Charles Lamb

    3 Even a true artist does not always produce art. --Carroll O'Connor

  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 2 -- Speaker 3

    1 Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

    2  Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. –Helen Keller

    3 Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. --Mahatma Gandhi

  4. Speaker 4


     

    2022 NOFC College -- Round 2 -- Speaker 4

    1 A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. –Joseph Campbell

    2 Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. --Karl Marx

     

    3 People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. --Anton Chekhov

     

  5. Speaker 5


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 2 -- Speaker 5

    1 If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. –Napoleon Hill

    2 A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. --Mignon McLaughlin

    3 A woman's health is her capital. --Harriet Beecher Stowe

  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 2 -- Speaker 6

    1 Art is science made clear. --Wilson Mizner

    2 Business can be a source of progressive change. --Jerry Greenfield

    3  Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. –Alice Walker

  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 2 -- Speaker 7

    1 Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. --Socrates

    2 When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. --Marlene Dietrich

    3 It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end. --Bjork

Round 3 - 1:30pm PST

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 3 -- Speaker 1

    1 Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. GONE WITH THE WIND

    2. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. THE GODFATHER

    3 You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. –ON THE WATERFRONT

  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 3 -- Speaker 2

    1 Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. THE WIZARD OF OZ

    2 Go ahead, make my day. SUDDEN IMPACT

    3 Here's looking at you, kid. CASABLANCA

  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 3 -- Speaker 3

    1 "Dobby never meant to kill! Dobby only meant to maim, or seriously injure!" Harry Potter

    2 May the Force be with you. STAR WARS 

    3 Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. ALL ABOUT EVE

  4. Speaker 4


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 3 -- Speaker 4

    1 You talking to me? TAXI DRIVER

    2 "Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands. They just don't." Legally Blonde

    3 Love means never having to say you're sorry. LOVE STORY

  5. Speaker 5


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 3 -- Speaker 5

    1 I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! NETWORK

    2 What we've got here is failure to communicate. COOL HAND LUKE

    3 "Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! And very few have it in them." –Black Swan

  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 3 -- Speaker 6

    1 "I'm already pregnant. So, what other shenanigans could I get myself into?" Juno

    2 There's no place like home. THE WIZARD OF OZ

    3 Show me the money! JERRY MAGUIRE

  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOFC College -- Round 3 -- Speaker 7

    1 All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup. SUNSET BLVD.

    2 "If you’ve ever wondered where your dreams come from, you look around - this is where they’re made." –Hugo

    3 "Separate and equal are two different things. Just ’cause it’s the way doesn’t make it right."

    Hidden Figures

Elim 1 - 3:30pm PST

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOFC College -- Elim 1 -- Speaker 1

    1. “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.” ―Bill Watterson 

    2. "Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." —Stephen Chbosky

    3. "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." —John Steinbeck

  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOFC College -- Elim 1 -- Speaker 2

    1. “Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind... I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.” ―Ilona Andrews

    2. "Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose." —C.S. Lewis

    3. "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." —J.K. Rowling

  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOFC College -- Elim 1 -- Speaker 3

    1. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." —Dr. Seuss 

    2. "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." —Ray Bradbury

    3. "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." —Maya Angelou

  4. Speaker 4


    2022 NOFC College -- Elim 1 -- Speaker 4

    1. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” —Oscar Wilde

    2. “Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.” ―Anna White

    3. “I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.” ―Douglas Adams

  5. Speaker 5


    2022 NOFC College -- Elim 1 -- Speaker 5

    1. “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.” ―Charles Darwin

    2. "Everything is hard before it is easy." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    3. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." —Albert Einstein

  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOFC College -- Elim 1 -- Speaker 6

    1. “These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light — the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.” ―David Foster Wallace

     2. “I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hungover and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.” ―Holly Black

    3. "It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." —Chuck Palahniuk

  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOFC College -- Elim 1 -- Speaker 7

    1. "We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." —Ernest Hemingway

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

    3. “We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.” —Brad Meltzer