I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them. – Maya Angelou
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. – Louis Sachar
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. – Louis Sullivan
It’s not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that’s the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way. – Jerry Moss
A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You’re welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. – Seth Godin
It wasn’t until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. – Paul D. Boyer
My wife and I have many friends that are gay, and we welcome LGBT people to attend our church. – Robert Jeffress
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. – Ralph Marston
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth. – S. Jay Olshansky
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn’t be welcome at the White House. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it. – P. Chidambaram
Guy’s guys are of course welcome! But my audience runs the spectrum of humanity. There’s something for everyone! – Rob Riggle
Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for ‘National Geographic.’ – Seth Shostak
Doing drama is a very welcome departure from comedy. Although I love doing both, I like to change it up a bit once in a while with roles in serious drama. – Paul Butcher
In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we’re stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it’s clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized. – Rick Perry
I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country. – Olusegun Obasanjo
The land is ours. It’s not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people… Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. – Robert Mugabe
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing – that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one’s door. – Paul Muldoon
And to any new fans we made along the way, I say… welcome to our party. It’s just starting to get going. – Richard Marx
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. – Samuel Johnson
It’s a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It’s America’s genre. – Robert Duvall
We’ll be ‘outsourcing’ our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it’s going to happen. – Seth Shostak
On ‘MADtv,’ I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!’ Surprisingly, there’s more call for that one than you’d think. – Phil LaMarr
The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells. – Ronald Frame