This article is a report on an investigation of quoting strategies in English, an investigation that is part of a longer-term research programme exploring clauses of "saying" and their quoted and reported content as direct and indirect speech by members of the SAL (Systemics Across Languages) Group. Here the focus is on how quotes are construed in discourse both explicitly and implicitly together with other human activities that may accompany processes of saying such as non-verbal communicative activities.