B. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

High School & Elementary Round 1 - 1:30 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile. --Arab Proverb

    2. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. --

      Russell Wayne Baker

    3. I hold it true,what'er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most' Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. --Alfred Lord Tennyson

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. --Benjamin Franklin

    2. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. --

      Nelson Algren

    3. Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. --Han Suyin

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. --Nora Roberts

    2. The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places. --Samuel Butler

    3. Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. --C. D. Jackson

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. --Steven Wright

    2. Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. --John Howard Payne

    3. I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't. --

      Dodie Smith

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. --Barber B. Conable, Jr

    2. The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war. --William Shakespeare

    3. I find nothing more depressing than optimism. --Paul Fussell

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. --H.L. Mencken

    2. Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    3. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    2. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. --Socrates

    3. The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. --Phaedrus

High School & Elementary Round 2 - 2:45 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. --M. C. Escher

    2. Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. --Robert A. Heinlein

    3. The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. --Tennessee Williams

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. --Chinese Proverb

    2. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. --Marilyn vos Savant

    3. There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. --Plato

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. It is better to be quotable than to be honest. --Tom Stoppard

    2. Nineties style isn't. --David Borenstein

    3. Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet --Lily Tomlin

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Never take counsel of your fears. --General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

    2. Tis the good reader that makes the good book. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    3. There is no love lost between us. --Miguel de Cervantes

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Where there is love there is life. --Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    2. Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. --Albert Camus

    3. If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. --

      Robert Francis Kennedy

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. --Lillian Eichler Watson

    2. The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears. --Rob Brown

    3. Ethics is not definable, it is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. -- Valdemar W. Setzer
  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough --William Shakespeare

    2. There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money

      somewhere else. --Sam Walton

    3. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. --Horace

High School & Elementary Round 3 - 4:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. --Edward W. Howe

    2. Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. --Woody Allen

    3. As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. --Leonardo DaVinci

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. --John Powell

    2. I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. --Alice Walker

    3. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. --H.L. Mencken

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. --Jane Austen

    2. You try to give away what you want yourself. --Lois McMaster Bujold

    3. Make friends not enemies, and you will always have eyes in the back of your head. --Eric Pio

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. --H.L. Mencken

    2. He not busy being born is busy dying. --Bob Dylan

    3. I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. --D. H. Lawrence

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. As ill-luck would have it. --Miguel de Cervantes

    2. Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. --Ruth Stout

    3. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to

      adults. --H Hahn Blavatsky

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails --Will Rogers

    2. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. -- George Sand

    3. There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. --Muhammad Ali

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. --Kahlil Gibran

    2. Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    3. True friendship is never serene. --Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

High School & Elementary Finals - 5:30 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. --Fawn M. Brodie

    2. There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. --James T. Farrell

    3. The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face. --Jack William Nicklaus

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. --William Butler Yeats

    2. Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. --Bradley Miller

    3. Without music life would be a mistake. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. --Euripides

    2. None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license. --John Milton

    3. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. --Lou Holtz

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. --Mary Bertone

    2. The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. -- Henry Miller

    3. Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery. --Gore Vidal

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. --Josh Billings

    2. I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. --G. C. Lichtenberg

    3. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. --Peter Marshall

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. --Pablo Picasso

    2. Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. --Mary Lorraine Buckley

    3. My life needs a rewind erase button. --Bill Watterson

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:

    1. If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. --Bob Hope

    2. Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. --Bergen

    3. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. --Heywood Brown