Table Topics 20 July 2023
The Open Alumni Toastmasters Club
Theme : Quotation From Books
1 - Snow Like Ashes
2 - The Hangman’s Daughter
3 - Altered Carbon
4 - Flowers for Algernon
5 - Warlight
6 - The Da Vinci Code
7 - The Last Lecture
8 - The Playbook
Table Topic 1
Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing. – Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
Table Topic 2
Life went on, despite all the dying. – Oliver Potzsch, The Hangman’s Daughter
Table Topic 3
Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated. – Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon
Table Topic 4
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. – Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Table Topic 5
I suppose we choose whatever life we feel safest in. – Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
Table Topic 6
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. – Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Table Topic 7
If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can’t do today. – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Table Topic 8
Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain. – Kwame Alexander, The Playbook