Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to have better situational hitting. We could have lost all three of those games, so we need to use these mid-week games as prep and confidence builders for this weekend.

Under the old process, we would have to send the builder numerous brochures that were already obsolete by the time they opened them. Now, the builder can show their customers the latest styles with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

With cost increases, unfortunately a lot of builders will sign a contract with a homeowner and halfway through construction the cost of materials goes up 12 percent. Frequently, the builder has to eat that.

Mark Helprin

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.

Michael Hayes

We kept running our plays and I kept getting open to knock down shots all night. This game goes as a huge confidence builder for us as we go on the road. We just need to keep playing as a team and see what happens from here on out.

Just getting to the line and making free throws is a confidence builder in itself. It keeps the defense honest.

Large-volume 'tract' builders will typically develop the ground -- streets, utilities, public/open spaces -- and build two or three display homes from which they will sell to buyers. Most of these also will do 'semi-custom' homes, where a buyer may generously modify or upgrade one of the offered models. These builders may build 'speculative' homes, hoping someone will like the house and land and buy it.

Matisse is a new visual GUI builder that allows developers to save a lot of time laying out their GUIs. This has been a huge problem in the Java industry for many years. This is the big, new, hot feature that the developers are really clamoring for.

I think most of the big builders will struggle to meet last year's totals. Any time you have interest rates on the rise, you're going to have higher cancellation rates.

I was working as a builder in Colchester three or four years ago a construction worker as you'd put it. Basically, the building work was feeding my habit of darts, earning me a wage when I couldn't quite make it. On weekends I'd go to tournaments and started getting a little better until I had a decent sponsorship. I concentrated fully on darts two and a half years ago.

Reliant is committed to supporting our customers and the communities where we do business. That's why when Royce Builders approached us to help this family, we gladly said yes.

Michael Strahan

Today was a morale builder for us. We've played better and we've played worse. But hopefully, this will be the start of an upswing that can take us through the postseason.

Time is the enemy. The more time builders have to get into our neighborhood, the worse our chances of getting protection will be.

Most of the investors are gone, and traffic is down in home builders' sales trailers. Just look at all the ads. Builders are trying to move homes fast.

Most of the builders seem to think what we want to do can be done, or are willing to try.

That was really a momentum builder and I thought it would change the pace of the game for us. We got within six, but, you've have to hit them when they count, so I should've hit them in the first half.

Those first two were big confidence builders for us. We knew with the weather the way it was, that we needed to jump on them early.

Michael Williams

We think it's time. You've got two years left on the contract, so you have time to look and see whether The Community Builders is actually providing you what you wanted in that contract.

Bob Harris

All the (member) districts voted on it. Basically, we don't want another professional builder to take a business owner's property under eminent domain.

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

After several record-breaking years for home sales, builders are anticipating a return of the market to a healthy and steady pace.

John Calipari

This could have been a momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound ... If we could have gotten one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we could have won.

A lot of national and regional builders are in the market, and all are trying to gain market share quickly. To do that, they are building units quickly and keeping prices down. It's volume and a competitive price.

Chris Hernandez

A lot of guys stepped up and we had guys down. We started scrapping and finding a way to win. I think that was a confidence builder for some of the younger guys.

This is an exciting time for the building industry. Builders say more customers want green homes, and we are ready for that challenge.

This is the first time I've ever seen or heard that a developer wants to do the show back to back. And the builders wanted to be in on it again. That's unheard of.

It was the custom for organ builders to take an old organ and enlarge it at a later time,

Every builder should spend 24 hours in a wheelchair in their own home. They would think differently about building homes that would be more friendly to people with disabilities.

Some softening of long-term interest rates since early December helped buoy builder attitudes. Consumer confidence has rebounded nicely from post-Katrina lows.

Now it's 30 builders who dominate the scene.

The builders would swoop in and wipe them out. There is just no way to police that at the cash register.

The builders of the Santa Fe lines in the early days no doubt planned ultimately to penetrate to the Pacific coast, knowing that the real opportunity for the road lay in that direction.