Otherwise, we are trying to build on sand or air or something equally insubstantial.
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The geniuses on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley aren't looking so brilliant these days.
The boom had been built on sand: housing speculation, overvalued stocks, reckless deregulation, irresponsible deficits.
Cashmere hoodies are all the rage on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif.
He said he made his attempt on sand because "it wouldn't hurt so much" when he fell off.
If a pencil and notepad are up for disintermediation, why not a few folks on Sand Hill Road?
From tee to green, golf on sand-green courses is just like regular golf.
The cows will be housed in open-sided sheds, bedded on sand, with whizzy cleaning systems intended to keep things hygienic.
To Obama, the old order of securities created by contracts freely entered into is like the "house built on sand" in Jesus' parable.
There are different models for how partnerships operate on Sand Hill.
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The birds, which feed on Sand Eeels, make the 4, 000 mile trip from west Africa in order to nest on the shingle ridge, amongst the sand dunes in Gronant.
Their large eyes would have helped them to see in the low light, and their flat feet would have been just as useful for walking on snow as they are on sand.
My impression is that the men socialize with one another and build on these connections better than the women do on Sand Hill Road, not to mention Wall Street and corporate America.
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Every investors dreams of finding the next Google ( GOOG), but unless you work on Sand Hill Road, you do not have access to these deals until they are already brought to market via IPOs.
The new Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park and with offices in Korea and Israel is led by Young Sohn, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics.
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He tracked the muggers' footprints on sand dunes over the course of several weeks, to get data for the maps, and established a pattern that helped police predict the attacks, so that they could lie in wait.
He earned loud cheers from delegates for attacking what he called Britain's "fast buck" culture - saying the country had to learn the lesson that "growth is built on sand if it comes from our predators and not our producers".
The fast-growing market opportunity in China and India also gives women a chance to get into top tier venture firms that are new to the market rather than on Sand Hill Road, where positions are already taken by partners who started the firms years ago, and their successors.
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"There was a guy who had a machine that could put company logos on the sand at beaches and in sand traps on golf courses, " he says.
You can charter a local boat from Labuanbajo for two or three day cruises in park waters, snorkel over pristine reefs, lounge on pink sand beaches and hike on Rinca and Komodo (one and a half and three hours by boat from Labuanbajo respectively).
So, on mornings like this one, Avie has to click a button on the floor that drops sand on the tracks as the car goes along.
It is where they celebrate, socialise, exercise or relax with a book on the sand.
The waves lapped more frequently on the sand behind my house, rocks rolling noisily over themselves.
But they went out on the sand anyway and began sopping up the oil.
There is no marine pollution, the ship is not damaged but stuck on the sand.
His walk looked jerky and a bit painful, as if he were stepping barefoot on hot sand.
As the last shards of sunshine danced on the sand, we got to Big Flat at 8 p.m.
Houston was in agony, dealing with bare feet on the hot sand, and now on the black asphalt.
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