“You give attention to army, police and things like that. Who pays attention to science? When I got the Dan David prize, which is similar to Nobel and given once in a few years by Israel, nobody talked about it. Nobody asked me anything about it. Nobody even knows and nobody understands it. It is so prestigious in the world of science but why didn’t anyone write about it?”
Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)
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“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Notes on sourcing http://www.bartleby.com/73/1982.html
Twain did say:
: "There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there … In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ...
Yes, one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it."
:* Speech at the dinner of New England Society in New York City (22 December 1876)
Misattributed
“Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention.”
Johnny Got His Gun (1938)
Context: Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me.
“Nobody gives a crap about ethics. That’s why people like me will always be successful.”
Source: Company (2006), p. 335
Rejoinder when told that he couldn't talk about physics, because "nobody [at this table] knows anything about it."
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake", p. 310.
Quoted in Handbook of Economic Growth (2005) by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
“There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.”
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Editorial, Hartford Courant (27 August 1897); this remark was reportedly quoted by Mark Twain and it has become often attributed to him, but the context of the statement might indicate the contrary situation
Paraphrased variant: Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Variant: Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”
"A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941, page 26 HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=IRWxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22nobody+talks+so+constantly+about+god+as+those+who+insist+that+there+is+no+god%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage