A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 4:00PM
Speaker 1
Bed
Tunnel
StoveSpeaker 2
Whisker
Man
PouchSpeaker 3
Tie
Fruit
RibsSpeaker 4
Cabinet
Suitcase
PigeonSpeaker 5
Bra
Stairs
ChestSpeaker 6
Pig
Daughter
VillageSpeaker 7
Mouth
Truck
Parfume
Round 2 - 5:30PM
Speaker 1
honesty
enthusiasm
HopeSpeaker 2
Infancy
truth
CalmSpeaker 3
Generosity
thought
ReligionSpeaker 4
Unemployment
Childhood
CompanySpeaker 5
Mercy
misery
rumorSpeaker 6
submission
experience
UnionSpeaker 7
Envy
Hurt
helpfulness
Round 3 - 6:30PM
Speaker 1
Do not look where you feel. Look where you slipped. --African Proverb
Kind words will unlock an iron door.
No news is good newsSpeaker 2
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. --Chinese Proverb
Half a loaf is better than none.Speaker 3
Even the best cooking pot will not produce food. --African proverb
One shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees
When a twig grows hard, it is difficult to twist it.Speaker 4
A roaring lion kills no game. --African Proverb
It’s no use crying over spilt milk
Do everything at the right time, and one day will seem like three. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 5
The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things. --Chinese Proverb
Doctors make the worst patients.
If you don't do stupid things you won't end up in tragedy. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 6
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
Better to wear out rather rust out.
When using books, you'll regret reading few. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 7
Do not call a dog with a whip in your hand. --African Proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. --Chinese Proverb
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Finals - 8:00pm
Speaker 1
There is always something left to love. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. --Benjamin Franklin
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. --Billy GrahamSpeaker 2
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood [...] back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time.
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. --AeschylusSpeaker 3
"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.” --— George Sand
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed. --Benjamin Franklin
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. --Betty FordSpeaker 4
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke." --— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. --Chinese Proverb
The function of freedom is to free someone else. --Toni MorrisonSpeaker 5
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. --Bruce Lee
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. --Benjamin Franklin
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. --Abraham LincolnSpeaker 6
"Never ask a man what computer he uses. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If it's not, why embarrass him?” --— Tom Clancy
"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children." --— Malcolm X
If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all --BambiSpeaker 7
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
God helps those who help themselves. --Benjamin Franklin
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.