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== [[Film]] ==

* ''Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter''

* ''Der Himmel ? Berlin''

* ''[[Harriet the Spy]]''

* ''[[Mansfield Park]]''

* ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' conversation in concern with white settlers moving further west:

'''John Dunbar:''' Like the stars. }}

* Played with in ''Local Hero'' when Ben Knox, while walking along a beach, challenges MacIntyre with an offer to sell his (Knox's, that is) land to MacIntyre's company.

'''Ben Knox:''' Ah, well that's a pity. You missed out on a good bargain, for I can only hold about ten thousand grains of sand in my hands. (MacIntyre looks skeptical) Did you think it would be more? }}

 

* In ''[[American Gods]]'', Mr. Wednesday claims he has as many names as there are way for people to die.

* [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Jungle Book]]'':

* In the Mullah Nasruddin stories, the Mullah sent three chests of gold to the emperor of India to pay tribute to him. In a delivery mishap, however, the messenger loses the gold and fills the chests with sand, water and rocks in that order. As the emperor opens each chest, his adviser comments on its contents. On the first two, the adviser states that the Mullah's army is as vast as the sands of the desert and the emperor has as many friends as there are drops of water in the ocean. (What he says about the rocks doesn't have to do with this trope, though.)

* The [[Silent Bob|mute but sapient bird]] in the [[Redwall]] book ''Lord Brocktree'' communicates by drawing. He draws stick figures in the dirt to represent a number of members of the enemy army, then taps his claws in the dust, leaving dozens of dots: "He says for each dot there's that many again. Too many for him to sketch!"

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (1978) episode "Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 2"

* William Bell in the ''[[Fringe]]'' season 2 finale: "I’ve traveled between universes so many times, my atoms are ready to split apart with the slightest provocation. You taught me there are as many atoms in the human body as there are stars in the sky. That’s how many atom bombs I am."

 

* [[Final Fantasy VI|"You see, there are more girls here than grains of sand out there. I can't keep track of 'em all!"]]

* In the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' manga, Donald tells this to Sora to cheer him up.

** Also counts as a [[Literal Metaphor]], as all those stars are ''actual'' worlds as seen from every other world.