Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.
It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
Honestly, the angrier I am, the looser my tongue is... when I get angry, it's just a motor mouth, and it just goes off, which is great, but it doesn't really work unless I'm very, very passionate about what I'm talking about.
The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.
No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
Sometimes when you're stood in front of 100 people, delivering a speech with rage and lots of emotion, that can be utterly terrifying. I find that very scary.
Times of Terror are Times of Eloquence
Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
Under adrenalin, at the end of the race, we can say things that we really don't think.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Some days I regret wording things the way I did in the heat of the moment.
A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
They classify my motivational speeches as rants...
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.
Even under the best circumstances, speaking at your own wedding ceremony is a high pressure endeavor. What even constitutes a vow? I always picture them as exclamations you bellow at the sky.
In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
