A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 2:30 p.m.

Speaker 1

1.  Beauty

2.  Hatred

3.  Love

Speaker 2

1.  Friendship

2.  Jealousy

3.  Fear

Speaker 3

1.  Anger

2.  Rejection

3.  Ideas

Speaker 4

1.  Wit

2.  Strength

3.  Depression

Speaker 5

1.  Laughter

2.  Lazy

3.  Growth

Speaker 6

1.  Time

2.  Travel

3.  Competition

Speaker 7

1.  Death

2.  Debt

3.  Blame

Round 2 - 4:00 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.