B. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 1:30pm
Speaker 1
1. Never let your best friends get lonely, keep disturbing them.
2. The only power you have is the word ‘no’. – Frances McDormand
3. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. --Jean Cocteau
Speaker 2
1. Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.
2. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. --Helen Keller
3. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. --William Shakespeare
Speaker 3
1. Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. --Greek Proverb
2. When nothing is going right, go left.
3. Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. --Theodore Roosevelt
Speaker 4
1. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
2. You try to give away what you want yourself. --Lois McMaster Bujold
3. A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find, lucky to have.
Speaker 5
1. No matter how bad it gets, I’m always rich when I go to the dollar store.
2. Let every man mind his own business. --Miguel de Cervantes
3. War will cease when men refuse to fight. --F. Hansen
Speaker 6
1. I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
2. Impossible is for the unwilling. --John Keats
3. An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. --Charles Horton Cooley
Speaker 7
1. Take the risk or lose the chance
2. Live a life as a monument to your soul. --Ayn Rand
3. There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. --Augustine of Hippo
Round 2 - 2:45pm
Speaker 1
1. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. --African Proverb
2. Good things happen to those who hustle. --Anaïs Nin
3. The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have. --Joyce Brothers
Speaker 2
1. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill
2. He who is brave is free. Seneca
3. The end always passes judgement on what has gone before. --Publilius Syrus
Speaker 3
1. Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. --Emile Coue
2. Life is a festival only to the wise. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. --Publilius Syrus
Speaker 4
1. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. --Francis Bacon
2. "There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it." --Amanda Gorman
3. Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. --Unknown
Speaker 5
1. Man was predestined to have free will. --Hal Lee Luyah
2. "I have learned not to allow rejection to move me." --Cicely Tyson
3. "Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them." --Madam C.J Walker
Speaker 6
1. "One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals." --Michelle Obama
2. "Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it." --Simone Biles
3. A white wall is the fool's paper. --French Proverb
Speaker 7
1. "All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them." --Viola Davis
2. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. --William James
3. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. --Winston Churchill
Round 3 - 4:25pm
Speaker 1
1. The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. --Andre Malraux
2. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. --Helen Keller
3. There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speaker 2
1. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. --Adolph Monod
2. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. --Albert Einstein
3. Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Speaker 3
1. Fools admire, but men of sense approve. --Alexander Pope
2. Believe you can and you're halfway there. --Theodore Roosevelt
3. Limit your "always" and your "nevers." -- Amy Poehler​​
Speaker 4
1. The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. --Edwin Schlossberg
2. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. --Carol Burnett
3. The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. --Homer
Speaker 5
1. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. --Juvenal
2. All things are in common among friends. --Laertius Diogenes
3. No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. --Demi Lovato
Speaker 6
1. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. --Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
2. The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. --Leo Tolstoy
3. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. --C.S. Lewis
Speaker 7
1. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. --Maya Angelou
2. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory. --Dr. Seuss
3. Men are not against you they are merely for themselves. --Gene Fowler
Finals - 6:00pm
Speaker 1
1. Build a dream and the dream will build you. --Dr. Robert Schuller
2. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
3. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. --Alec Bourne
Speaker 2
1. Education is the best provision for old age. --Aristotle
2. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. --George Burns
3. A lie told often enough becomes truth. --Lenin
Speaker 3
1. Only the educated are free. --Epictetus
2. Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting ... but never hit soft --Theodore Roosevelt
3. Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about. --Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Speaker 4
1. College isn't the place to go for ideas. --Helen Keller
2. If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. --Amy Tan
3. I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. --Gilda Radner
Speaker 5
1. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. --Herbert Spencer
2. Oppression can only survive through silence. --Carmen de Monteflores
3. We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. --H. G. Wells
Speaker 6
1. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. --Mark Twain
2. A man's character is his fate. --Heraclitus
3. I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. --The Road Not Taken
Speaker 7
1. It is only the ignorant who despise education. --Publilius Syrus
2. There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. --Herbert Marshall McLuhan
3. Feel the fear and do it anyway. --Susan Jeffers
Speaker 8
1. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. --Rabindranath Tagore
2. But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all. --Don Quixote
3. Assumptions are the termites of relationships. --Henry Winkler