Headlights On Quotes

#1. I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

Emily Blunt

#2. You know, that's my trouble," he groaned. "I never listen to anybody. Somebody kept telling me to put my headlights on, but I just wouldn't listen.

Joseph Heller

#3. Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster.

Dennis Vickers

#4. Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit.

John Knowles

#5. Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

Elton John

#6. He knows that something somewhere has to break/He sees the family home now looming in the headlights/The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache/
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage/on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

Sting

#7. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E.L. Doctorow

#8. Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

Bill Dedman

#9. All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market's decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.

Larry Ellison

#10. I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'.

Steven Wright

#11. My staff is made up of politicians, Rachel, not scientists. You've met Dr. Marlinson. I think he's terrific, but if I let an astrophysicist loose on my team of left-brain, think-inside-the-box intellectuals, I'll end up with a herd of deer in the headlights.

Dan Brown

#12. Deer in headlights.
Cornered suspect.
Mouse in the open, owls circling.

Kathy Reichs

#13. You have this deer-in-headlights look sometimes that I'm sure means you're going to run. Run to me, Amy, not from me.

Lisa Renee Jones

#14. Your headlights don't scare me.

Ilona Andrews

#15. Sasha was the epitome of the "don't look because you'll be caught like a deer in headlights" type of guy.

Alexia Purdy

#16. Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot!

Bill Watterson

#17. I wish I could have been there to tell you to never trust a boy with star eyes. They blind you like a deer in headlights." I

Zoraida Cordova

#18. I took my bike instead of the car so I wouldn't wake Mom. I remember it started to rain and then I saw headlights coming when I turned the corner. I tried to get out of the way, but it all just happened so fast I couldn't stop.

Apryl Baker

#19. The motorcycle's headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it.

B. J. Daniels

#20. President Obama is getting a new limousine that will have advanced night-vision capabilities. The technology even has a cool name ... headlights.

Jimmy Fallon

#21. Simone crossed herself and prayed as she watched headlights coming at them, fast and furious. Her hands shaking from fright, she buckled herself in while Jesse screamed out like a terrified child in the back seat. As if he could die.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but you're actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren't driving well

Ben Silbermann

#23. His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?

Lorrie Moore

#24. Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines)

George Pelecanos

#25. If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

Steven Wright

#26. The Headlights lit the path we were traveling down, but only so far. After that, the world was dark and empty, full of possibility and uncertainty ... much like the paths of our own lives.

S.C. Stephens

#27. Tell me again was it love at first sight
When I walked by and you caught my eye
Didn't you know love could shine this bright?
Well, smile because you're the deer in the headlights.

Owl City

#28. Authenticity always and absolutely carries a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.

Ken Wilber

#29. It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights! ... That's a real talent

Josh Stern

#30. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Steven Wright

#31. I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save us
to save us ... Won't you look at the sky?
They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.

David Berman

#32. He got the impression she might be a bit fucked up, but that had always been his type. The kind that would break your headlights, egg your house, spray paint ASSHOLE on your garage door.

C.D. Breadner

#33. What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity? What would become of old women reading by candlelight? What would become of his own life-illusion, his secret 'mythology,' in such a world?

John Cowper Powys

#34. Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. I've only ever leapt away
when happiness approached -
a deer caught in headlights,
or maybe a dog with its
leg bleeding in a trap.

Darshana Suresh

#36. In the distance, they could see the headlights from cars crossing the bridges like fireflies swarming the streets toward home.

Abby Slovin

#37. He made the engine growl and told the headlights to fuck the night.

David Wong

#38. Somewhere nere Ogallala, about six hours into that majestic, maddening prairie, I realize that half an hour has passed since I've seen a vehicle in either direction.
Oh, I think, as I finally see a pair of headlights draw nigh in the eastbound lane, so this must be where the West begins.

Lily Burana

#39. [The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

(The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101)

E.L. Doctorow

#40. You Could Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make Your Whole Trip That Way

Ann Brashares

#41. Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#42. Because the driving kept him going stay under seventy; God, my heart racing; I hate the taste of coffee; so wired though; okay, and clear of the truck; okay yes; right lane; and now just my own headlights against the darkness.

John Green

#43. I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Steven Wright

#44. Automate the headlights so drivers can't forget to turn them on in low visibility.

Robert James Thomson

#45. And he don't know ... that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires ... Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.

Carrie Underwood

#46. I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Mitch Hedberg

#47. The broken centerline of the road in her headlights just an endless pulsing ribbon.

Michael Montoure

#48. Warped asphalt, marred with shallow potholes and buckled with frost heaves - the scars of harsh winters and brief sweltering summers - unfolded under a shock of headlights like a story she could recite.

Mira Gibson

#49. Fawn face, the expression a deer makes not when it's caught in headlights but when it catches a human looking at it in wonder. The deer looks back, acknowledging not only its own terror but its own grace, and it shows off for a moment in front of the human. It flirts.

Meg Wolitzer

#50. In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Heather O'Neill

#51. Arthur and Trillian had the fixed expressions of rabbits on a night road who think that the best way of dealing with approaching headlights is to stare them out. Zaphod

Douglas Adams

#52. headlights swung over and past me. I ignored them, staring

James Patterson

#53. Not only will those ultra bright European sulphur diode high beams ' catch a deer in the headlights' they'll vaporize it too

Josh Stern

#54. She wasn't gorgeous, wasn't ugly. A sprinkle of freckles crossed the bridge of her nose. Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, except for two things, She wore no makeup, and her eyes were the biggest I had ever seen, like deer's eyes caught in headlights.

Jerry Spinelli

#55. Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.

Robert James Thomson

#56. His first instinct was to help me, not sit like a deer in headlights, I now know that Matt isn't one to panic

Joe Teti