I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the…

— Pete Townshend

I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never…

— Simon Beaufoy

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all…

— Dave Barry

“... and Hannah's bed was a wide, white barge, her eiderdown a sail that steered them through the foreign morning.”

— Anouk Markovits

I lived on a barge for the first six months, with a cousin. Then on the floor of a friend's house.

— Alexander Armstrong

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of…

— Leonard Boswell

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I…

— Rose George

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part…

— Alexander Hanson

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

— David Walliams

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown…

— Hugh Massingberd

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

— Martin Freeman

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains…

— Julie Andrews

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

— Natalie Dormer