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  B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 11:45 AM

  1. Speaker 1


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” -Mark Twain

    2.  "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley

    3. "Without a struggle, there can be no progress." -Frederick Douglass

  2. Speaker 2


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

    2. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. -Jim Hightower

    3. Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know. -Louis Armstrong

  3. Speaker 3


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." -Winston Churchill

    2.  "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." -John F. Kennedy

    3. "I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage, he is at least safe from people."  - George Bernard Shaw

  4. Speaker 4



    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


     

    1.  "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Winston Churchill

    2.  “I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”  - Napoleon Bonaparte 

        3. “An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”  - Confucius


  5. Speaker 5


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit. - Jim Davis

    2. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for - Anonymous Proverb

    3. It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another thing to wallow in it – Kenneth Auchincloss

  6. Speaker 6


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. – Ivern Ball

    2. If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. – Les Brown

    3. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. – Aesop

Round 2 - 1:15 PM

  1. Speaker 1



    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.



    1.  The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. – Ivern Ball

    2. If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. – Les Brown

    3. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. – Aesop

  2. Speaker 2




    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. – Cyril Connolly

    2. A bird does not sing because it has an answer.  It sings because it has a song. – Chinese Proverb

    3. Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. – Epictetus

  3. Speaker 3


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1. The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealized past. – Robertson Davies

    2. Use what talents you possess:  the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke

    3. Good food ends with good talk. – Geoffrey Neighor


  4. Speaker 4



    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice. – Marcus Valerius Martial

    2. God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented cages. – Jacques Deval

    3. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw

  5. Speaker 5


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here. – Finley Peter Dunne

    2. There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. – Robert Lynd

    3.  If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J. R. R. Tolkien

  6. Speaker 6



    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but the images of the past embodied in language. – Brian Friel

    2. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? – Rose Kennedy

    3. It’s the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal. – Kirby Larson

Finals - 4:00 PM

  1. Speaker 1


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  Cherish all your happy moments:  they make a fine cushion for old age. – Christopher Morley

    2. Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. -Mark Twain

    3. Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet. -Sadie Delany

  2. Speaker 2


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns

    2. Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. -Ovid

    3. I used to want the words “She tried” on my tombstone. Now I want “She did it.” -Katherine Dunham

  3. Speaker 3


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.  - Mahatma Gandhi

    2. The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish. -Ali Babacan

    3. The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. -Mary McLeod Bethune

  4. Speaker 4


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  Very little is needed to make a happy life. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

    2. I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond. -Leonard Lauder

    3. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. -Lena Horne

  5. Speaker 5


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but the manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

    2. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. -Ella Fitzgerald

    3. Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. -Dr. Mae Jemison

  6. Speaker 6


    JUDGES: Please copy the prompts below and paste them into the chat window of the Live Competition Room.


    1.  Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. – Oscar Levant

    2. The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -W.E.B. Du Bois

    3.  My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. -Desmond Tutu