As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the…

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

— Clint Walker

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

— William Christopher Handy

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being…

— Cyril Connolly

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout,…

— Haruki Murakami

For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness…

— Gayle Forman

A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the…

— Frederick Lenz

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a…

— Joel Spolsky

The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the…

— Dave Barry

I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and especially from…

— Michael Yates

Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with…

— J.H. Wyman

The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your seat, and…

— Joan Chen

Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and…

— Madison Cawein

I watched a Katie Taylor interview, really interesting and then Eddie Hearn barges in! "Oi, hello, apples and pears!" You should be promoting your…

— David Haye

I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't…

— Warren MacKenzie

My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful…

— Sam Shepard