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

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

J. K. Rowling
Moon, Trying, Centaurs

Technically, we're all half centaur.

Nick Offerman
Centaurs, Half

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

Aristophanes
Clouds, Sky And Clouds, Centaurs

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?

Eoin Colfer
Hollies, Singing, Centaurs

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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Men, Centaurs, Half
"History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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

Rick Riordan
Eye, Animal, Centaurs

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.

Lucretius
Centaurs, Body, Speak
Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.160, Psychology Press

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men, Clouds, Centaurs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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.

Eoin Colfer
Horse, Centaurs, Tongue
Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.247, Penguin UK

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

Brandon Mull
Centaurs, Honey, Just Saying

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