day-dreamer

Schools instill the self-image of the speculative day-dreamer; jobs instill the self-image of the practical go-getter.

Mixed Signals: Why Becker, Cowen, and Kling Should Reconsider the Signaling Model of Education, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

He was a great day-dreamer, a seer of fit and beautiful and humorous visions, but hardly a great artist; hardly, in the manful sense, an artist at all.

Memories and Portraits 2005

In his dying hours perhaps he thought back to his own boyhood, to the little day-dreamer they had called "Old Mooney" and to the hardship caused by his father's fecklessness.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

But to the pilgrim of the other sort -- day-dreamer, if you will -- there must come a sense not of gain but of loss.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

Gilbert winced at this, and did not half like to be told he was a day-dreamer.

Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale Clara de Chatelaine

They had a prevailing impression that that blank space was the region of the wonderful; and the day-dreamer, the imaginative man, who was, naturally enough, proclaimed to be inspired, since none could tell how his knowledge came, was generally at hand to fill up the blank space with appropriate picture.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

He was not a mere day-dreamer, a theorist, a philosopher, a scholar, although he possessed the gifts of each.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Be the garden-lover what he may -- day-dreamer, fainting heart, troubled soul -- how gently the shadow-finger on the dial points the time for him!

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

This scene from the heights is a fascinating one for the day-dreamer.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

Castle-building is a pleasant but dangerous occupation; had I not been so much of an enthusiast, a day-dreamer, it would have been better for my happiness.

A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church