A. College Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
1. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. --Henry Ward Beecher
2. Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. --Anon.
3. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true. --James Branch Cabell
Speaker 2
1. A good friend of my son's is a son to me. --Lois McMaster Bujold
2. Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. --J. Donald Wlters
3. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. --Father Jerome Cummings
Speaker 3
1. We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. --Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
2. If you want to get along, go along. --Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
3. 80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in. --Lawrence Peter Berra
Speaker 4
1. Because You're Worth It - L'Oreal.
2. He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. --Joan Brannon
3. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. --Douglas Adams
Speaker 5
1. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. --Robert Louis Stephenson
2. Think Different --Apple
3. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. --Dwight D Eisenhower
Speaker 6
1. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. --Lois McMaster Bujold
2. Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat. --Socrates
3. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. --Thomas Carlyle
Speaker 7
1. The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. --Vartan Gregorian
2. Just do it. --Nike
3. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. --Rudyard Kipling
Round 2 - 9:15am
Speaker 1
1. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. --Samuel Johnson
2. Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse --Derwood Fincher
3. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. --John F. Kennedy
Speaker 2
1. If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours. --Proverb
2. Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age. --Christopher Morley
3. Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. --Anthony Robbins
Speaker 3
1. There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. --Pablo Picasso
2. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. --Edmund Burke
3. It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. --Woody Allen
Speaker 4
1. If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed. --Edwin Holt Hughes
2. Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. --Henry David Thoreau
3. Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things. --Bruce Barton
Speaker 5
1. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. --Harrison Ford
2. No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. --Theodore Roosevelt
3. I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself. --Mike
Tyson
Speaker 6
1. Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. --Agesilaus the Second
2. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca
3. The best armor is to keep out of range. --Italian Proverb
Speaker 7
1. Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort. --John Ruskin
2. There must be more to life than having everything. --Maurice Sendak
3. The most profound statements are often said in silence. --Lynn Johnston
Round 3 - 10:30am
Speaker 1
1. You can cover a great deal of country in books. --Andrew Lang
2. Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. --
Charles Dudley Warner
3. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. --Mark Twain
Speaker 2
1. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next. --Ursula K. LeGuin
2. No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would --Lonny Starr
3. The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other. --Henry Kissinger
Speaker 3
1. You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough. --Unknown
2. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. --Maurice Masterlinck
3. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 4
1. Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. --Stanislaw I. Leszczynski
2. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. --Charles F. Kettering
3. Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. --Kahlil Gibran
Speaker 5
1. Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. --Pindar
2. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. --Henry Kissinger
3. Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense --Patrick Henry
Speaker 6
1. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. --Sophocles
2. We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. --Abigail Adams
3. I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. --Steven Pearl
Speaker 7
1. He conquers who endures. --Persius
2. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. --Jane Austen
3. Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. --David Lloyd George
Finals - 12:10pm
Speaker 1
1. We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. --Benjamin Franklin
2. Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. --William Shakespeare
3. The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. --Claude Pepper
Speaker 2
1. He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. --Cicero
2. It is easier to pull down than to build up. --Latin Proverb
3. God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is --Samuel Butler
Speaker 3
1. My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. --Woody Allen
2. Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death --Plato
3. Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. --Art Linkletter
Speaker 4
1. There is always something for which to be thankful. --Charles Dickens
2. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. --Henry Kissinger
3. Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. --Thomas Carlyle
Speaker 5
1. Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair. --Judith Stern
2. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. --Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
3. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. --Maya Angelou
Speaker 6
1. All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. --Voltaire
2. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. --Laurence J. Peter
3. There are too many people, and too few human beings. --Robert Zend
Speaker 7
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. It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering. --Patrice Gifford
3. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. --Chinese Proverb