A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 4:00PM

  1. Speaker 1


    Bed
    Tunnel
    Stove

  2. Speaker 2


    Whisker
    Man
    Pouch

  3. Speaker 3


    Tie
    Fruit
    Ribs

  4. Speaker 4


    Cabinet
    Suitcase
    Pigeon

  5. Speaker 5


    Bra
    Stairs
    Chest

  6. Speaker 6


    Pig
    Daughter
    Village

  7. Speaker 7


    Mouth
    Truck
    Parfume

Round 2 - 5:30PM

  1. Speaker 1


    honesty
    enthusiasm
    Hope

  2. Speaker 2


    Infancy
    truth
    Calm

  3. Speaker 3


    Generosity
    thought
    Religion

  4. Speaker 4


    Unemployment
    Childhood
    Company

  5. Speaker 5


    Mercy
    misery
    rumor

  6. Speaker 6


    submission
    experience
    Union

  7. Speaker 7


    Envy
    Hurt
    helpfulness

Round 3 - 6:30PM

  1. 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 news

  2. Speaker 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 Proverb

  5. Speaker 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 Proverb

  6. Speaker 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 Proverb

  7. Speaker 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

  1. 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 Graham

  2. Speaker 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. --Aeschylus

  3. Speaker 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 Ford

  4. Speaker 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 Morrison

  5. Speaker 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 Lincoln

  6. Speaker 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 --Bambi

  7. Speaker 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.