A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 4:00pm
Speaker 1
- Mood
- Religion
- Service
Speaker 2
- Irritation
- Movement
- Amazement
Speaker 3
- Wariness
- Evil
- Horror
Speaker 4
- Dexterity
- Wisdom
- Power
Speaker 5
- Opinion
- Courage
- Dictatorship
Speaker 6
- Infancy
- Pride
- Surprise
Round 2 - 5:30pm
Speaker 1
- Violin
- Shrimp
- Castle
Speaker 2
- Tree
- Veterinarian
- Koal
Speaker 3
- Truck
- Grains
- Hotel
Speaker 4
- Jumper
- Flower
- Guitar
Speaker 5
- Pigeon
- Knife
- Sunglasses
Speaker 6
- Remote
- Pharmacy
- Casino
Round 3 - 6:30pm
Speaker 1
- A doctor who invoked a storm on his people cannot prevent his house from destruction. --Nigerian proverb
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Do not follow a person who is running away. --Kenyan proverb
Speaker 2
- You cannot build a house for last year’s summer. --Ethiopian proverb
- Slow and steady wins the race.
- What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
Speaker 3
- To know another is not to know the person's face, but to know the person's heart. --Chinese Proverb
- A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
- The squeaky wheel gets the grease
Speaker 4
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- A picture is worth a thousand words.
- There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet. --Chinese Proverb
Speaker 5
- Enjoy it while it lasts
- Time is money.
- A smile will gain you ten more years of life. --Chinese Proverb
Speaker 6
- Beggars can’t be choosers
- Strike while the iron is hot.
- After the feast comes the reckoning.
Finals - 8:00pm
Speaker 1
- My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods. --Hunter Parrish
- Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. --Thomas Carlyle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. —Aristotle
Speaker 2
- What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. --Shia LaBeouf
- Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. --Charles de Gaulle
- Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. --Maria Schell
Speaker 3
- The key to education is the experience of beauty. --Friedrich Schiller
- War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. --Lewis Mumford
- Motherhood is difficult and rewarding. --Gloria Estefan
Speaker 4
- Hollywood's just not funny. --Chris Rock
- To me, art supplies are always okay to buy. --Louis C. K.
- The American dream is about freedom. --Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 5
- Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. --John Henry Newman
- If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. --Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker 6
- It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are. --Debra Winger
- Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government. — Thomas Paine
- There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man that is so evil to be worth nothing. — David Castillo's last words, executed in Texas on Aug. 23, 1998