A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 2:30 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  Beauty

    2.  Hatred

    3.  Love

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Friendship

    2.  Jealousy

    3.  Fear

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  Anger

    2.  Rejection

    3.  Ideas

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Wit

    2.  Strength

    3.  Depression

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  Laughter

    2.  Lazy

    3.  Growth

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Time

    2.  Travel

    3.  Competition

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  Death

    2.  Debt

    3.  Blame

Round 2 - 4:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”

    — Peter Steiner

    2.  “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

    — Hamlet

    3.  "Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence in society.”

    — Mark Twain

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

    — Albert Einstein

    2.  "You may not think about politics but politics thinks about you.”

    — Aung San

    3.  "Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance.  Strong men believe in cause and effect.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  "If you sweep a conflict under the rug, eventually you're going to trip on it.”

    — Dr. Marilyn Sorensen

    2.  "Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

    — Marcus Aurelius

    3.  "The only way an artist can fail is to quit.”

    — Thomas Hart Benton

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  "You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.”

    — Anthony Michael Hall

    2.  "If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”

    — George Bernard Shaw

    3.  "The difference between bravery and stupidity is timing.”

    — Robert Burns

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

    2.  "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”

    — Benjamin Franklin

    3.  "Being powerful is like being a lady.  If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

    — Margaret Thatcher

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”

    — Albert Einstein

    2.  “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

    — Voltaire

    3.  "Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”

    — Amelia Earhart

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”

    — Martin Luther King, jr.

    2.  "You may not think about politics but politics thinks about you.”

    — Aung San

    3.  "Great, we've made a great discovery!”

    — Jonas Salk's response whenever he was told in the laboratory that something hadn't worked.