Neil Gaiman

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

British Author

Haylie Duff

My mom was probably the biggest influence. She cooked dinner every night. We sat around the table every night. It was a very traditional family.

American Actress

Isla Fisher

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

Australian Actress

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Scottish Writer

Jack Monroe

I live in a world where I want everyone to be able to put beurre blanc on the table for dinner.

British Journalist

Janet Flanner

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

American Journalist

Princess Michael of Kent

I cook. Well, if I'm giving a dinner party I get in help.

Gerald R. Ford

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

American President

Tiffani Thiessen

I really try to plan out my dinners in advance.

Actress

Burt Lancaster

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

American Actor

Some cultures eat their main meal at midday while others in the evening.

Time Variety

'Dinner' often implies a social gathering, not just eating food.

Social Event

The term can be used for both casual family meals and more formal settings.

Casual or Formal

Using 'dinner' in formal contexts often carries an expectation of dress code and etiquette.

Enhanced Formality

Formal dinners may include other activities, like speeches or ceremonies.

Associated Events

For formal dinners, invitations are usually sent, and RSVPs may be required.

Invitations Matter

The word can refer to the act of cooking or preparing the dishes, not just the meal itself.

Not Just Food

The term can imply the exact time food is ready to be eaten.

Serving Time

 distribute their creative works, not for financial profit, but to raise their social profile or establish their community role. And even potluck dinners and holiday gift traditions involve some degree of reciprocity and social norms. We might wonder if a gift is truly a gift if it comes with obligations or involves some social pay off.

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 The dinner plate by which material falls onto the black hole is called the accretion disc, shown here in blue. Some of that material is slingshotted around the black hole and accelerated to insanely high speeds in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare,

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 will perish. Ultimately, with the passage of years, the survivors will increase in size, from that of a dinner plate at year one to that of a dinner table, in the case of one species at least, the leatherback, a decade or so later. With size comes some measure of protection.

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 this instinct dinner already the little chitter in this is like a contact call i've heard this in the wild with wild weasels lots of times and it's to me it's one of the most beautiful sounds that actually is twizz must start strengthening her muscles to improve her agility

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 Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along because the neat, organized log of wood is now converted into randomly moving water vapor and carbon dioxide. The energy shed by this exothermic reaction powers the endothermic reaction of cooking your dinner.

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 Cho may be Taiwan's most highly respected chef and tonight he will host a very unusual dinner for some very special guests including several of taiwan's top food critics the dish he's chosen to prepare is so taboo it may be

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 the snake comes out onto the rocks after hunting in the sea to chill out and digest its dinner so it's a good chance for me to get a closer look kind of weird this crawling into a deep cave looking for deadly venomous

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 It rarely happens when the cats are out with each other. Hello. To understand what's going on Do you want some dinner? we have to go back to the beginning and the youngest members of our study.

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 thank you so much for dinner solar power is scaling up faster than cellphones for six years running half the world's editions of electric generating capacity have been renewable

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 Good evening! What's the matter? Are you afraid of vampires? He he, no need to worry, I'm not staying for dinner. I'm here to guide you through a brief history of vampires,