Nellie McKay Quotes

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jennifer Lopez, like I'm going to get married.

My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.

It might be that you never want to get married, or it might be that you really, really do. Either is fine. What's not fine is not to be honest about what you want.

I am single, and my mother is worried. She wants me to get married. Now that I'm in my 30s, I can't wait for the work-load to slow down. I need to find someone who will accompany me in my professional journey.