Rush
A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
The merest trifle; a straw.
To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
A perfect recitation.
A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
The act of running with the ball.
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Rush Quotations
We have time, there's no big rush.
Jimi Hendrix
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
Robin Williams
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
George H. W. Bush
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
Neil Young
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
Jeff Foxworthy
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
Ziggy Marley
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
Keith Richards
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Kofi Annan
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
Geddy Lee
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
Robert Benchley
Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.
River Phoenix
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
Bob Newhart
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Manfred von Richthofen
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
Bruce Springsteen
When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
Vin Diesel
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack
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Rush Translations
rush in Afrikaans is gou maak, haas
rush in Danish is skynde sig
rush in Dutch is spoed maken, voortmaken, haast maken
rush in German is hetzen, Andrang {m}, Eile {f}
rush in Italian is affiuenza, furia, spingere, smaniare, pigiare
rush in Latin is vado, impetus
rush in Portuguese is arremetidas
rush in Spanish is apresurar, acosar, cesped, presura, afluencia
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