The cut and restore rope trick is a magic effect in which the performer cuts a piece of rope (Usually tied into a knot) which then appears to be magically restored. Sometimes the trick is done with a piece of string, a handkerchief, or a turban instead of an actual rope.
Read more about Cut And Restore Rope Trick: Method
Famous quotes containing the words cut and, cut, restore, rope and/or trick:
“It was not exactly a hairdresser’s; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind might have called it a barber’s; for they not only cut and curled ladies elegantly, and children carefully, but shaved gentlemen easily.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off;”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 9:43.
Jesus.
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have ... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father’s curse, mother’s moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)