And long speeches. Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a campaign speech, which he had folded in his breast pocket. It slowed down the bullet enough that he refused to stop the speech, and continued to talk for another 90 minutes.
"It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to." - Treebeard