D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
Zebra
Truck
BoatSpeaker 2
Sparrow
Smile
DressSpeaker 3
Sun
Neck
HamburgerSpeaker 4
Watch
Bikini
MallSpeaker 5
Heart
Shrimp
TelevisionSpeaker 6
Underwear
Brain
SpaghettiSpeaker 7
Hand
Voice
Carpet
Round 2
Speaker 1
Anxiety
Skill
AnnoyanceSpeaker 2
Weariness
Chaos
AngerSpeaker 3
Despair
artistry
honorSpeaker 4
Disregard
sophistication
WisdomSpeaker 5
Awareness
misery
NapSpeaker 6
Growth
Perseverance
PatienceSpeaker 7
parenthood
Speed
Strictness
Round 3
Speaker 1
Do not follow a person who is running away. --Kenyan proverb
Walk the walk, talk the talk.
You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. --Irish proverbSpeaker 2
Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive. --Chinese Proverb
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure.Speaker 3
Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden. --Irish proverb
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The axe forgets but the tree remembers. --African ProverbSpeaker 4
Seeing is believing
Failure is the mother of success. --Chinese Proverb
It takes a village to raise a child.Speaker 5
We desire to bequeath two things to our children. The first one is roots; the other one is wings.
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Justice delayed is justice denied.Speaker 6
Seeing is different than being told. --African Proverb
A happy occasion gladdens the spirit. --Chinese Proverb
A rolling stone gathers no moss.Speaker 7
Money talks.
May the wind always be at your back. --Irish proverb
Do as you would be done by.
Elim 1
Speaker 1
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” --— Jacob Riis
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. --EM Forster
“If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.” --— Steven SoderberghSpeaker 2
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. --Arthur Miller
Being young and beautiful is not a crime, you know
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 3
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. --Abraham Lincoln
There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it --Brave
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. --Booker T. WashingtonSpeaker 4
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. --Bayard Rustin
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.Speaker 5
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. --JK Rowling
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions. --Catherine Cook
“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.” --— Andy WeirSpeaker 6
When I look at you, I can feel it. And I, I look at you and…I'm home --Finding Nemo
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy AdamsSpeaker 7
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost. --EW Hornung
Truth never damages a cause that is just. --Mahatma Gandhi