Skewed Priorities/Quotes

Late last night I returned home from my duties as royal envoy, to find my kin in a greater uproar than the southern city I had left behind. Ten months of Westgate's problems shrivel to insignificance when compared to the tragedy that has befallen the clan of the Wyvernspurs of Immersea.

How could the flattening of an entire neighborhood by a dragon corpse, followed by an earthquake and an underworld power-struggle, hope to compete with the theft of a family heirloom no larger than a zucchini and uglier than three-week-old sausage?

—Giogioni Wvvernspur, Wyvern's Spur

Lister: You've got to get your priorities right! You know, it's like those people you read about who run back into a burning house to rescue some treasured piece of furniture and wind up burning to death. I mean, nothing's more important than a human life!

Rimmer: What about your guitar?

Lister: ...except my guitar.

—Red Dwarf, "Marooned"

Hey commander. Check it out! Big news; the new Blasto movie is breaking opening-week records! There's also a big expose on quasar tournaments, tips on how to make your apartment look bigger, and... oh yeah, a big-ass Reaper invasion.

—Joker, complaining about this in Mass Effect 3

Cartman: (crying) My dad was a ginger!

Kyle: Dude, you killed your own dad, and you're worried about that?!

—South Park