B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:30
Speaker 1
- "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
- "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
- "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
Speaker 2
- "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
- "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." - Rigoberta Menchu
Speaker 3
- "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." - Beyoncé
- "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
- "You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you." - Meryl Streep
Speaker 4
- "Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde
- "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." - Mary Wollstonecraft
- "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks
Speaker 5
- "You can't be what you can't see." - Marian Wright Edelman
- "We need women at all levels, including the top, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored." - Sheryl Sandberg
- "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." - Malala Yousafzai
Speaker 6
- "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
- "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher
Round 2 - 1:15
Speaker 1
"Winter is coming." - Game of Thrones
"What's the point of being an outlaw if you've got responsibilities?" - Peaky Blinders
"I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research." - Sherlock
Speaker 2
"How you doin'?" - Friends
"I am the one who knocks." - Breaking Bad
"I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour." - Friends
Speaker 3
"That's what she said." - The Office
"I'm not a hero, I'm a high-functioning alcoholic." - Jessica Jones
"In this world, there's only one truth: everything comes to an end." - Naruto
Speaker 4
"I have a cunning plan." - Blackadder
"It's not about winning, it's about fun." - Spongebob
"Oh, my God. They killed Kenny!" - South Park
Speaker 5
"It's not a lie if you believe it." - Seinfeld
"Don't dream it, be it." - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." - The Godfather
Speaker 6
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - The Dark Knight
"That's what heroes do." - Doctor Who
"There's no place like home." - The Wizard of Oz
Final Rd - 4:15
Speaker 1
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by" - Robert Frost
"Do not go gentle into that good night, / Old age should burn and rave at close of day" - Dylan Thomas
"Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me" - Emily Dickinson
Speaker 2
"For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood" - William Wordsworth
"Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul" - Emily Dickinson
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Speaker 3
"Water, water, everywhere, / Not any drop to drink." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills" - William Wordsworth
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate" - William Shakespeare
Speaker 4
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep.” - Robert Frost
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" - T.S. Eliot
"The best-laid plans of mice and men / Go oft awry" - Robert Burns
Speaker 5
"Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime" - Andrew Marvell
"I have loved none but you." - Jane Austen
"I heard a fly buzz when I died" - Emily Dickinson
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" - John Keats
Speaker 6
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" - Jane Austen
"To see a world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild flower" - William Blake
"Theirs is not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Speaker 7
"I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul" - William Ernest Henley
"She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies" - Lord Byron
"Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" – Alfred, Lord Tennyson