"Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect."

“I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.”

“Statistically speaking, when a woman says I'm not going to have sex with you, she'll often have sex with you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 16, 2011

“John Wayne never wore Lycra.”

“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.”

“Circumstances should never alter principles!”

“When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

“When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.”

Source : "New Again: Alec Baldwin". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 19, 2012.

“We are at this moment where what concerns me is that we're all so caught up in Donald Trump, James Comey, and David Kushner, and Mike Flynn, that it's in danger of overwhelming the real story, which is what the Russians did and tried to do. I contend that it was the most serious attack on our country since September 11, 2001. It was deliberate, it was sophisticated, it was conscious, and it was in some ways successful.”

Source : "This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp". Interview With Albert R. Hunt, www.bloomberg.com. June 18, 2017.