Esquire Quotes

#1. I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact,

Mary-Louise Parker

#2. I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

Don Novello

#3. The ordeal is part of the commitment
Esquire Interview 10/10

Philip Roth

#4. As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, 'Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.' Spin those mower blades, Bill, and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth. End of lecture. Besides, a mess of dandelion greens is good eating once in a while.

Ray Bradbury

#5. Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
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Philip Roth

#6. Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.
Source: Esquire Magazine, June 2000 original edition

Julia Child

#7. In a new issue of Esquire magazine, they revealed that before he was married to Teresa Heinz, Senator John Kerry dated Morgan Fairchild, Michelle Phillips, Catherine Oxenberg and Dana Delany. Finally a Democratic presidential candidate with good taste in women.

Jay Leno

#8. 'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Caitlyn Jenner

#9. You can't change the music of your soul.
- In Esquire, 1967

Katharine Hepburn

#10. I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us ... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. There was a large notice in black and red hung on the gate, stating that on June the Twenty-second Messrs Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

Richelle Mead

#13. A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

Mercy Otis Warren

#14. When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

George Lois

#15. Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

Vera Farmiga

#16. It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

Merrill Markoe

#17. All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

Laurence Shames

#18. Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

David Amram

#19. I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of company I was in at Esquire, but I didn't think it was going to launch a career as a top-notch journalist. It's just not what I wanted.

Laurence Shames

#20. It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.

Carolyn See

#21. I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

Dan Wakefield

#22. A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

Ted Allen

#23. I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam.

Diana Gabaldon

#24. Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog

Vera Farmiga

#25. Subject: Not a chance
Missy,
I accept your challenge, and may I remind you, that if you want me to leave you alone, there is that little bet we have going. Win it, and I'm gone.
Impatiently (and nakedly) yours,
Mr. Hunter Aaron Zaccadelli, esquire.
P.S. Bring it on.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#26. When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Denis Johnson

#27. We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

Al Sharpton

#28. of Esquire contained an article entitled "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," written by the magazine's

Ernest Hemingway,

#29. However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

Ted Allen

#30. The flesh was falling from the bones of those I loved, and all the mountain flowers were crushed and broken.

Gabriel Byrne

#31. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Dorothy Parker