Sidney Sheldon Quotes

Nothing important is completely explicable.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

Some things are beyond human understanding.

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Some things were beyond understanding.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

For some reason, it didn’t feel right. Victor’s words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he’d come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn’t all. Something else was coming. There is more.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it?

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.