Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
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originally an 'ad lib' in 1950 on BBC Home Service radio programme Listen with Mother. Used as the consistent opening line until end of series in 1982.
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BBC web-site - Accessed 25 Jan 2011
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Partridge, Eric (1986). A Dictionary of Catch Phrases:British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Routledge. p. 26. ISBN 041505916X. Note that Frieda Fordham (a psychologist who advised the BBC) has also been credited with it.Julia Lang
Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.
Maureen Lipman
I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.
Samuel Palmer
They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture.
It could rain in a room this big.Hugh Laurie
The light
Begin to bleed,
Begin to breathe,
Begin to speak.
D'you know what?
I love you better now.Kate Bush
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.Edgar Allan Poe
Lang, Julia
Lang, Serge
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