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  • Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

  • Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

    Inspiration   Men   Dust  
    Primo Levi (2005). “The Black Hole of Auschwitz”, p.157, Polity
  • Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

  • A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

    Horse   Coffee   Beer  
  • You..." The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead.

    Eye   Animal   Centaurs  
  • He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying." - Warren

  • Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon.

    Moon   Trying   Centaurs  
  • Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

    Jumping   Giving   Orion  
  • While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

    Boys   Men   Rivers  
  • Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

  • Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

    Swimming   Hair   Trying  
  • Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?

    Mean   Warrior   Two  
    Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.441, Penguin UK
  • Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

    "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.
  • Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur!" screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. Artemis straightened his tie. Freud, he was certain, would have a field day with that.

    Hate   Eye   Ties  
  • I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

    Growing Up   Eye   Voice  
    P.C. Cast (2010). “Brighid's Quest”, p.47, Harlequin
  • The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

    Dragons   World   Ants  
    Cantos no. 81, l. 144 (1948)
  • Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

    Men   Clouds   Centaurs  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
  • I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.

    Miracle   Mutants   Doe  
    P.C. Cast (2009). “Elphame's Choice”, p.290, Harlequin
  • At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

    Couple   Journey   Views  
    Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey
  • Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.

    Men   Centaurs   Half  
    "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.
  • ...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

    Nymphs   Greek   Insane  
  • Technically, we're all half centaur.

    Centaurs   Half  
  • He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis" "Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?

  • But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

    Centaurs   Body   Speak  
    Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.160, Psychology Press
  • Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

    Horse   Centaurs   Tongue  
    Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.247, Penguin UK
  • I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.

    Brother   Flower   Rocks  
  • CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."

    Life   Horse   Men  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社
  • The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

    Courage   Learning   Men  
    Cantos no. 81, l. 148 (1948)
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