The Greeks Had a Word for It. Albee

-Akins, Zoe«
  Title of play.

Polyester†the most valuable word to come out of the 70s, the one that defines tacky for all time.

-Anonymous
  'Prettier Poly', NewYork Times editorial, 21 Mar.

Philistinism!öWe have not the expression in English. Perhapswehavenottheword because wehavesomuch of the thing.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism First Series,'Heinrich Heine'.

Then up and started our gudewife, Gied three skips on the floor: 'Gudeman, ye've spoken the foremost word, Get up and bar the door.'

-Ballads
'Get Up and Bar the Door'.

Estou farto do lirismo comedido Do lirismo bem comportado Do lirismo funciona¤  rio p u¤ blico com livro de ponto expediente protocolo e manifesta c° o‹  es de apre c° o ao Sr Diretor. Estou farto do lirismo que pa¤  ra e vai averiguar no diciona¤  rio o cunho verna¤  culo de um voca¤  bulo. Abaixo os puristas I'm sick of cautious lyricism of well-behaved lyricism of a civil servant lyricism complete with time card office hours set procedures and expressions of esteem for Mr Boss, Sir. I'm sick of the lyricism that has to stop in midstream to look up the precise meaning of a word. Down with purists!

-Bandeira, Manuel
  Libertinagem,'Poe¤  tica' (translated as'Poetics',1989).

  'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'

-Barthelme, Donald
  Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural  Acts,'The Indian Uprising'.

Here I must say, in my eighty-sixth year, I do not feel greatly different from when I was eighty-five. This is my final word. It is time for me to become an apprentice once more. I have not settled in which direction. But somewhere, sometime soon.

-Baron
  Address at a farewellbanquet in London, hostedfor him by Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, 25 May. He died two weeks later.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that hemight maketheeknow that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the L doth man live.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDDeuteronomy 8:3.

Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the L be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD1 Kings18:21.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:9.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:11.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:105.

A word spoken in due season, how good is it!

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs15:23.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 25:11.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD'SORDORDORDORDIsaiah 40:1^8.

Foras therain cometh down, and thesnow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and makethit bring forthand bud, that it maygiveseedtothe sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 55:10^11.

  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord G, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the L: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the L, and shall not find it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODORDORDAmos 8:11^12.

If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus19:10.

Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 4:1^4.

The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and myservant shall be healed.For Iama man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man,Go, and he goeth; and to another,Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed,Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 8:8^10.