Speaker 1

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 1 - Speaker: 1

1. I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing. --Chantal Kreviazuk

2. Respect the burden. --Napoleon Bonaparte

3. Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. --Lao Tzu

Speaker 2

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 1 - Speaker: 2

1. Just do it. --Nike

2. Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. --Benjamin Disraeli

3. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. --Marquis de la Grange

Speaker 3

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 1 - Speaker: 3

1. I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap. --Bob Hope

2. Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. --Tallulah Bankhead

3. Marriage is the tomb of love. --Giacomo Casanova

Speaker 4

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 1 - Speaker: 4

1. I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. --Thomas Jefferson

2. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. --Margaret Fuller

3. They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad. --Zhang Ziyi

Speaker 5

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 1 - Speaker: 5

1. No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. --Charles Kendall Adams

2. Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. --Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael

3. Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. --John Keats

Speaker 1

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 2 - Speaker: 1

1. When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard. --David Sedaris

2. Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. --Charlie Chaplin

3. You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool. --Andre Benjamin

Speaker 2

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 2 - Speaker: 2

1. The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. --George Santayana

2. People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. --Dorothy Gilman

3. A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. --Virginia Woolf

Speaker 3

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 2 - Speaker: 3

1. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. --Bertrand Russell

2. I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. --Chris Cooper

3. Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. --Gerry Adams

Speaker 4

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 2 - Speaker: 4

1. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars. --Paul Davies

2. Depend upon yourself. --Grantland Rice

3. No nice men are good at getting taxis. --Katharine Whitehorn

Speaker 5

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 2 - Speaker: 5

1. Do not fear mistakes. There are none. --Miles Davis

2. Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. --William Shakespeare

3. A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. --Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Speaker 1

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 3 - Speaker: 1

1. Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts. --Lee Westwood

2. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. --Jim Rohn

3. Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. --Herbert Simon

Speaker 2

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 3 - Speaker: 2

1. When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? --Gilbert K. Chesterton

2. Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. --Sandra Day O'Connor

3. In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. --Henry Miller

Speaker 3

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 3 - Speaker: 3

1. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard. --Anne Spencer

2. I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology it's solved by people. --Patricia Cornwell

3. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. --Allan Bloom

Speaker 4

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 3 - Speaker: 4

1. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. --Dennis Prager

2. There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. We can't help but be influenced by film. --David Mitchell

Speaker 5

2021 Summer Royale - Impromptu - Prelim Round 3 - Speaker: 5

1. My mother is a special story. --Novak Djokovic

2. I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. --Avril Lavigne

3. It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. --Gloria Steinem